chattanova
19-09-2007, 04:39 PM
The UK government has been accused of trying to reclassify two kinds of cluster bombs so they can still be used after a proposed global ban begins. Landmine Action said the government wanted to make use of its current stocks of the controversial bombs which open up to scatter smaller bombs.
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/9/9/19/f_39048693bl7m_969fe7f.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7000083.stm
http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/9/9/19/f_clusterbombm_ab52ccb.jpg
This is what cluster bombs do and the British government claims to be part of the 'civilised world' !!!!
It's absolutly terrible but this is reality... the one we don't see in mainstream media.
Some background to cluster bombs
http://www.itvs.org/bombies/bombs.html
# During the Gulf War over 30 million cluster bomblets were dropped on Kuwait and Iraq and, in the following months, unexploded bombs killed 1,600 civilians and injured another 2,500.
# According to a recent study by the Red Cross, children in Kosovo are five times more likely to be killed or injured by a NATO-dropped unexploded cluster bomb than by a Serbian landmine.
# Today, in Afghanistan, reports indicate that the U.S. use of cluster bombs is causing the same kinds of tragic consequences for civilians there as they did in other countries. Because cluster bombs are area weapons with a wide dispersal pattern, they kill living things indiscriminately, including civilians. And their high-failure rate means that the killing of innocent people will continue long after the bombs stop dropping.
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/9/9/19/f_39048693bl7m_969fe7f.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7000083.stm
http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/9/9/19/f_clusterbombm_ab52ccb.jpg
This is what cluster bombs do and the British government claims to be part of the 'civilised world' !!!!
It's absolutly terrible but this is reality... the one we don't see in mainstream media.
Some background to cluster bombs
http://www.itvs.org/bombies/bombs.html
# During the Gulf War over 30 million cluster bomblets were dropped on Kuwait and Iraq and, in the following months, unexploded bombs killed 1,600 civilians and injured another 2,500.
# According to a recent study by the Red Cross, children in Kosovo are five times more likely to be killed or injured by a NATO-dropped unexploded cluster bomb than by a Serbian landmine.
# Today, in Afghanistan, reports indicate that the U.S. use of cluster bombs is causing the same kinds of tragic consequences for civilians there as they did in other countries. Because cluster bombs are area weapons with a wide dispersal pattern, they kill living things indiscriminately, including civilians. And their high-failure rate means that the killing of innocent people will continue long after the bombs stop dropping.