The
landmark case, filed in 2014, has pitched Tran To Nga, a
79-year-old who claims she was a victim of Agent Orange, against
14 firms, including U.S. multinational companies Dow Chemical
and Monsanto, now owned by German giant Bayer.
Tran To Nga confirmed to Reuters earlier media reports that the
case had been thrown out. She added she would appeal against the
ruling.
Tran, who worked as a journalist and activist in Vietnam in her
20s, has said she notably was suffering from Agent Orange
effects, including type 2 diabetes and a rare insulin allergy.
U.S. forces used Agent Orange to defoliate Vietnamese jungles
and to destroy Viet Cong crops during the war.
The legal proceedings could have been be the first to provide
compensation to a Vietnamese victim.
So far, only military veterans from the U.S. and other countries
involved in the war have won compensation.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Yiming Woo;Editing by Sudip
Kar-Gupta and Andrew Cawthorne)
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