1979
Vietnam
The new UK government of Margaret Thatcher persuades the European Community
to halt its regular shipments of milk to Vietnam in order to support the USA blockade of that country. This causes the price of
milk powder to increase by ten times. The World Health Organisation blames this policy for stunting the growth
of 30% of children under 5 and for a large number of children going blind due to Vitamin A deficiency.
The USA blockade of Vietnam is criticised by Telford Taylor, the chief USA prosecutor in the
Nuremberg Trials (of Nazi Germany after World War II). He writes:
"We have smashed the country to bits and [we] will not even take the trouble to clean up the blood and rubble. Somehow we
have failed to learn the lessons we undertook to teach at Nuremberg."
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