Okinawa bases buried toxic barrels near schools and veterans testify to Agent Orange there
Evidence
In Okinawa, on land that was once part of Kadena Air Base, investigations in 2013 and 2014 uncovered more than eighty barrels containing dioxin and other contaminants. The barrels were buried under a soccer field adjacent to two schools. And just as in South Korea, over the decades Okinawa has apparently been polluted by Agent Orange: although the military denies the defoliant was ever present on the island, more than 250 veterans have testified since 2001 to having seen it sprayed, stored, and buried on Okinawa during the Vietnam War. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 413
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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