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Vietnam
During the Vietnam war (1961-1971), the United States sprayed over 73 million
litres of chemical agents in Vietnam.
Using a variety of defoliants, the U.S. military intentionally targeted cultivated
land, destroying crops and disrupting rice production.
The US sprayed over 73 million litres of chemical agents on the country.
Some 45 million litres of ‘Agent Orange’, which contains the toxic compound
dioxin was unleashed on Vietnamese civilians.
Again during the Vietnam War the US dropped more than 400,000 tons of Napalm
on mainly civilian areas in Vietnam throughout the war.
The Vietnam Red Cross recorded over 4.8 million deaths and 400,000 birth
defects caused by the use of Agent Orange.
Areas of Laos and Cambodia near the Vietnam border were also sprayed with
chemical agents.
In the U. S. A...
In 2001, the San Francisco Chronicle reported “at least three times in the past,
residents of San Francisco and other American cities had been inadvertent victims
of efforts designed to help shield citizens against attacks.” In 1950, the army
secretly sprayed supposedly harmless bacteria over the entire city and its suburbs
using a Navy ship.
Between 1956 and 1961 the CIA sent agents to examine the effects of mind-
altering drugs such as LSD and synthetic mescaline on unsuspecting people in San
Francisco, Mill Valley and other cities across the country in a secret behaviour
modification programme named MK-ULTRA. Between 1944 to 1974, both the
Defence Department and the Atomic Energy Commission conducted in San
Francisco and around the country hundreds of secret experiments, which exposed
unsuspecting patients to dangerous doses of radiation, including injections of
plutonium.
Again, in 1951, racist experiments were carried out by U.S. army researchers by
deliberately exposing African-Americans to the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus so as
to discern whether they are more susceptible to the infections caused by such
organisms than people of white European descent.
ISRAEL / PALESTINE
In January 2009, Human Rights Watch reported Israel’s military fired white
phosphorus over crowded areas of Gaza repeatedly and indiscriminately in its
three-week war.
The 71-page report charged the Israeli military of using white phosphorus in Gaza.
The report charged Israel with firing 155mm artillery shells, each containing 116
wedges soaked with the chemical.
The Guardian reported finding one such shell still smoking several days after it
was fired, outside the home of the Abu Halima family in Atatra. One white
phosphorous shell hit the house directly, killing a father and four of his children.
His wife was severely burnt. Human Rights Watch also reported the same case.
According to HRW, on January 15 at around 7.30 am, Israeli artillery shells began
falling near the main compound of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City,
where 700 civilians were sheltering.
UN staff made repeated telephone calls to the Israeli military asking them to stop.
But, at about 10.00 am, six shells hit the compound, three of which contained
white phosphorus. The warehouse was hit, causing at least $10m of damage, and
it continued to burn for 12 days.
In another case, on 17 January, an artillery shell that had already discharged its
white phosphorus hit a UN school in Beit Lahiya, where 1,600 civilians were
sheltering!
IRAQ
In its invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein, the US used White Phosphorous,
Napalm and Depleted Uranium in contravention of all UN Conventions.
According to a study, Fallujah had a higher rate of cancer, leukaemia and infant
mortality rate than Hiroshima and Nagasaki had, after the US nuclear bombed the
two cities in 1945.
The study/report found young women in Fallujah were afraid of having children
because an increasing number of babies were born with unimaginable grotesque
birth defects. Moreover, young children in Fallujah are currently suffering from
various cancers and leukaemia.
Contrary to the image the US and western political leadership attempts to
present, from World War II to today, the US has the lead in the world in the
development, production and deployment of chemical weapons on both military
forces and civilian populations across the world.
This is not a complete list of the use of chemical weapons by western countries
and their ‘client’ states, but it exposes the lies and hypocrisy of the US and its
western allies who pose as champions of democracy and human rights.
The recent missile attack carried out by the US, UK and France in Syria in fact, is a
means of testing their ‘smart’ weapons on human guinea pigs. The fact that the
Syrians were able to shoot down a large number of these ‘smart weapons’ now
provides these powers chance to update the weapons.
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