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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008...5:41 pm


US, Russia and China Oppose Cluster Bomb Ban

The BBC reports that “More than 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which would ban current designs of cluster bombs.”

Cluster bombs “are made up of a big container which opens in mid-air, dropping hundreds of smaller individual sub-munitions, or ‘bomblets’, across a wide area.”

“Countries like the US, India, Pakistan and Israel claim such munitions are highly useful on the battlefield, but opponents say that where the bomblets fail to explode they leave a deadly legacy for civilians.

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“But in a statement, the Pentagon stood firm, saying: ‘While the United States shares the humanitarian concerns of those in Dublin, cluster munitions have demonstrated military utility, and their elimination from US stockpiles would put the lives of our soldiers and those of our coalition partners at risk.’”

Some of the bomblets often don’t explode, leaving an explosive attractive to curious children, whose curiosity has killed and maimed many.

Once again the USA government opts for profits over humanitarian considerations.

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