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Hué being only 100 km away from a main Vietnam war combat zone, I decided to check it out. Initially, I wanted to treat myself to a day trip on a moto taxi taking me to various landmarks. (Being on the passenger seat of a motorbike is truly awesome.) But my driver let me down at the last minute ”because it’s raining and it’s too far.” I think he wanted to stay in town with his friends to get drunk for Tet. So I hopped on a bus with twenty other tourists instead.

The Rockpile on top of which a US army base used to be during the Vietnam war.

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Most children of Ky Kuang orphanage were abandonned by their parents because they have a birth deffect. Some of them have body malformations, some are blind and others are mentally challenged.
Some of those children still are the victims of Agent orange a chemical weapon used during the Vietnam war with disastrous consequences on people’s health.

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La plupart des orphelins de Ky Kuang ont été abandonnés par leurs parents parce qu’ils étaient anormaux à la naissance. Certains ont une malformation physique, d’autres sont aveugles et d’autres encore ont un handicap mental.
Certains d’entre eux sont encore les victimes de l’agent orange, une arme chimique utilisée pendant la guerre du Viêtnam, et qui a eu des conséquences dramatiques sur la santé des populations locales.