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5. “A Kind of Mylai … Against the Indochinese Countryside”: American Scientists, Herbicides, and South Vietnamese Mangrove Forests

verfasst von : Amy M. Hay

Erschienen in: Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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In a 1972 book review of Harvest of Death, a collection of essays examining chemical warfare in South Vietnam, plant biologist Arthur Galston compared the US herbicide campaign to the “willful destruction of an entire people and its culture” that had happened during World War II and had been condemned at the Nuremberg trials (Galston 1972). Developing his analogy further, Galston noted that a crime of such magnitude against humanity was labeled genocide. In the case where “the willful and permanent destruction of an environment in which a people can live in a manner of their own choosing ought,” according to Galston, “to be designated by the term ecocide.” Harvest of Death, then, became “a document of a kind of Mylai perpetrated against the Indochinese countryside.” Galston represented one side of a sometimes bitterly divided group of American scientists as they sought to assess the damage done to the South Vietnamese countryside, most particularly the coastal mangrove forests of the Mekong Delta.

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Titel: “A Kind of Mylai … Against the Indochinese Countryside”: American Scientists, Herbicides, and South Vietnamese Mangrove Forests
verfasst von: Amy M. Hay
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Buch: Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-0933-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-0934-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0934-8_5

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