Tran To Nga

[3] In 1966, in the region of Củ Chi (north of Saigon), she saw a "white cloud", a long trail in the wake of an American army C-123, as she wrote in her autobiography,[3] “A sticky rain trickles down my shoulders and smears on my skin.

In the months that followed, she was again the victim of the spraying of Agent Orange that the United States poured by the millions of liters on Vietnam between 1961 and 1970: "As I followed the troops of the National Front for the Liberation of South- Vietnam for the news agency Giai Phong, I walked through the jungle, walked in the swamps, soaking myself in wetlands and polluted soils”.

Her eldest daughter, Viêt Haï, born in 1968 in the maquis, suffers from a heart defect, tetralogy of Fallot.

[10] In the spring of 2014, she assigned 26 multinationals in the American agrochemical industry that had manufactured or supplied Agent Orange, including Monsanto and Dow Chemical.

[11][12] The Agent Orange spilled on the lands of South Vietnam, part of Cambodia and Laos, in particular to defoliate the Ho Chi Minh trail, contained dioxin (TCDD), a toxic manufacturing residue.

The civil complaint is filed by lawyers Bertrand Repolt, Amélie Lefebvre and the tenor of the bar William Bourdon.

Two op-eds signed by numerous personalities and associations, calling for “justice for Tran To Nga and the victims of Agent Orange”, were published on August 7, 2020[16] and January 18, 2021.

[17] Many associations and political personalities signed a letter of support for Tran To Nga in her lawsuit against American chemical companies, published in June 2021.