vietnam war is not genocide genocide is the deliberate killing of a certain religious ethnic or national group the vietnam war was never a deliberate and systematic killing of any religious ethnic or national group using agent orange is not genocide because genocide must be deliberate agent orange's purpose was to destroy crops and trees the human side effects were not fully understood at the time i have removed the agent orange part in addition to this part a film called u s techniques of genocide in vietnam describes the use of elaborate u s weapons against civilian targets in vietnam such as anti personnel weapons designed to kill human targets while causing minimal damage to buildings steel pellet bombs that zigzag in all directions and the internationally banned dum dum bullet because it is not notable in any way just because a film says it is genocide does not make it so the citation isn't working either