Use of Agent Orange in Central Highland
From: Hoang t. Dieu-Hien <dieuhien@u.washington.edu>
Date: 2008/9/28
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear list,
Does anyone have information regarding scientific or scholarly work done either in Vietnamese or English regarding the use of Agent Orange in Central Highland during the 1960s and 1970s? I have found much information in popular media, but I have not found much from the scholarly and scientific communities. Any help or lead towards sources is much appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Hien
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Hoang t. Dieu-Hien
Psychosocial & Community Health
Box 357263
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
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From: Maxner, Steve <steve.maxner@ttu.edu>
Date: 2008/9/28
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Hien:
If you conduct a search of the Virtual Vietnam Archive, you will find quite a bit of material about this issue.
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/redirects/vva.htm
Click on the link to the Advanced Search page
Enter Agent Orange as one keyword phrase and central highlands as another.
It will return about 100 documents.
I hope some of the materials are helpful. Good luck with your research.
Best regards,
Steve
Stephen Maxner, Ph.D.
Director
The Vietnam Center
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From: Diane Fox <dnfox@holycross.edu>
Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM
To: vsg@u.washington.edu
Gerald Hickey and George Condominas both have had things to say about this. I wish someone would interview them, soon.
Oscar Salemink would be a good person to ask for other sources.
Diane
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From: Oscar Salemink <OJHM.Salemink@fsw.vu.nl>
Date: 2008/10/3
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Diane and other colleagues,
I am not sure whether I can be of any use here as I have never done any research on this. The appendix in Hickey's two-volume Ethnohistory of the VN Central Highlands is highly informative, of course, and I recall that there is quite a bit on this in various US army archives (which I have never pursued).
I recall having seen two early assessments of damage to the forest. One was a report by a Stockholm (Sweden) based institute, issued somewhere in the early 1980s if I remember correctly. The other is a 3-volume report from 1978 prepared by a team from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands. I give the bibliographic details below.
Best regards,
Oscar Salemink
Wageningen UR Library Catalogue
Record number
302213
Title
Restoration of devastated inland forests in South Vietnam » more
[door] C.F.W.M. von Meyenfeldt, D. Noordam, H.J.F. Savenije [et al.]
Author(s)
Meyenfeldt, C.F.W.M. von ; Noordam, D. ; Savenije, H.J.F.
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From: Diane Fox <dnfox@holycross.edu>
Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:19 PM
To: vsg@u.washington.edu
Sorry--
I forgot to mention the work of Phung Tuu Boi, who began doing surveys on AO and other destruction for the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute in 1974. Maybe FIPI would have some accessible records--or you could contact Pam McElwee, who has worked quite a bit with Mr Boi.
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