29-year-old Nguyen Tuan Linh from the southern province of Dong Nai has walked the length of Vietnam on his own in a bid to collect signatures in support of the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO) and their fight for justice.
29-year-old Nguyen Tuan Linh from the southern province of Dong Nai has walked the length of Vietnam on his own in a bid to collect signatures in support of the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO) and their fight for justice.
The young man, who is member of the Bien Hoa chapter of the Communist Youth Union, arrived in the central city of Hue on March 3, where he received more than 12,000 signatures in support of AO victims in their lawsuit against 37 US chemical companies that produced the dioxin sprayed by the US army during the Vietnam War.
In Thua Thien-Hue province, Linh held talks with people affected by AO at the provincial association of AO victims and also with over 1,000 pupils from Nguyen Chi Dieu High School.
Linh started his 1,900-km journey on February 2, walking along National Highway 1A towards Hanoi and then along Highway 3 to the northern midland province of Phu Tho, the homeland of the Hung Kings who founded the Vietnamese nation.
He is scheduled to reach his final destination - the Temple of Hung Kings - on the day that celebrates their death, which falls on March 3 of the Lunar Year or on April 4 this year.
(Source: VNN/VOV)
