Letter from Vietnam Regarding Dow Sponsorship of London Olympics

"... Dow Chemical, however, has and continues to violate this spirit by manufacturing deadly chemicals that destroy the human body and mind."- letter to Olympic Organizers

Courtesy: vba.va.gov

(LONDON) - I returned to London on 16th December and while in Ho Chi Minh City along with others that included an Member of Parliament, representatives of the Foreign Office and the BBC World Service, we visited Children at the Tu Du Hospital affected by Agent Orange.

Dow Chemical was one of the companies that manufactured Agent Orange and has been given the contract for the Olympic Stadium that we are campaigning on to get cancelled.

Yesterday I received a letter addressed to the Olympic Organising committee, a Member of the National Assembly of Vietnam, who is also President of the Vietnam Association for the Vietnam Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA). I agreed to deliver the letter by hand to the Chairman of the London Olympic Committee, Lord Coe, this I did this morning. It will be sent to other bodies.

In the official letter to the Olympics and Paralympics Organizers, representing more than 300,000 members of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxon *VAVA) and three million victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the group asks officials to drop Dow Chemical as a sponsor of the games to be held in London in 2012.

They wrote:

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The Olympics and Paralympics games stand for the triumph of the human mind and body as athletes, engage in competition. Dow Chemical, however, has and continues to violate this spirit by manufacturing deadly chemicals that destroy the human body and mind.

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See a copy of the letter here: http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/Letter%20from%20VAVA%20to%20LOCOG.pdf

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