AFP 2012-08-09 09:49:26
A Vietnamese Airforce soldier sits guarding the entrance to a dioxin-contaminated area at Danang airport, a former US airbase, where a ground-breaking ceremony of the joint US-Vietnam Dioxin Cleanning Project is held on August 9, 2012. From deformed infants to grandparents with cancer, families near Vietnam's Danang Airbase have long blamed the toxic legacy of war for their ills, but after a decades-long wait an "Agent Orange" clean-up was finally launched on August 9, 2012. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam
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