Dept Veterans' Affairs 30 day Notice
- agentorangechild
- Jun 8
- 2 min read
Subject: Final 30-Day Notice – ICC Escalation, Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity, and Transnational Organised Crime
26/05/2025
Dear Department of Veterans’ Affairs,
This is your final notice that I am escalating my case to the final stage of submission to the International Criminal Court, to be filed on 1 July 2025 under Article 15 of the Rome Statute. This complaint includes evidence of the Department’s failure to recognise, support, or compensate me as a second-generation survivor of TCDD (Agent Orange) exposure — and your department’s complicity in a coordinated cover-up involving both government and corporate actors.
My father served in Vietnam from 17 December 1969 to 7 December 1970. I was born shortly after his return and have lived with severe, disabling congenital and neurological conditions for 50 years. Despite my birth certificate, health history, and documented connection to his service, I have been denied recognition, pension, and Gold Card medical support.
This case now moves beyond administrative failure — it is part of an international criminal investigation into Transnational Organised Crime (TOC) involving:
Corporate actors, including Monsanto (now Bayer) and Dow Chemical (now Dow Inc.), who knowingly manufactured and exported dioxin-contaminated herbicides.
These companies generated over $100 billion in revenue while suppressing evidence of multigenerational harm.
These corporations continued production despite full knowledge of dioxin’s long-term, multigenerational toxicity — placing profit over human life.
Your department, by refusing to screen, inform, or support the children of exposed veterans, has knowingly enabled this ongoing harm.
These actions are not just morally indefensible — they are legally prosecutable.
Your actions and inactions breach the following international laws and instruments:
Rome Statute
Article 7(1)(k): Inhumane acts causing great suffering or serious injury
Article 7(1)(h): Persecution on inherited, health-related, and familial grounds
Article 25(3)(c): Complicity in crimes against humanity through omission
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Articles 3, 6, and 24
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Articles 25 and 4
Stockholm Convention and WHO Persistent Organic Pollutants guidance
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
This complaint is being submitted not just as a civil or human rights matter, but as evidence of Transnational Organised Crime involving government protection of corporate profit at the expense of civilian survivors.
You have until 30 June 2025 to provide a meaningful response. If you remain silent, this letter — and your non-response — will be submitted as evidence of wilful neglect and complicity.
Your silence will be treated as further evidence of wilful neglect and active suppression of justice under international law.
Named individuals may be held accountable as accessories under Article 25 of the Rome Statute.
Where I was vulnerable is exactly where the system failed me — and that’s what makes this case so powerful for all second-generation victims of Agent Orange.
After that, your silence will speak for you — forever.
The record will remain, even if you choose not to.
Warm Agent Orange Burns regards,
Danielle Stevens
We will always be a child of a Vietnam Veteran
A formal complaint has been lodged with the International Criminal Court for Crimes against Humanity.
All correspondence can be included in legal proceedings.
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