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Jump To Comment: 5 4 3 2 1To be fair to Colm O'Gorman and the Indo, his example is explicitly one of civilian casualties of indiscriminate Israeli cluster-bombing: "Hassan Hemadi was 12 years old when an unexploded Israeli cluster munition took away four fingers from his right hand. .... where Hassan's home village of Deir Qanoun Al Ras Ein is located, nearly 90pc of land used for farming and shepherding is contaminated with unexploded cluster "bomblets"."
Cluster bombs are used by Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Israel, Morocco, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, the UK, the US and Yugoslavia. The countries affected by their use include Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cambodia, Chad, Croatia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Montenegro, Pakistan, Russia (Chechnya), Saudi Arabia, Serbia (including Kosovo), Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Vietnam and Western Sahara. (It is easy enough to pair these conflicts).
The suppliers are Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the US. (Not forgetting that "neutral" countries like Switzerland and Ireland run highly profitable businesses in the development, component manufacture, transport and agency sales of such weaponry).
In other words, primarily richer nations are either bombing the poorest into the dark ages (UK, US and other Europeans in Afghanistan and Iraq; Israel against Palestinians / Lebanon; Russia in Chechnya) or profiting from wars in which they have little interest.
Its amazing how col o'gorman amnesty director can write a whole articel on cluster bombs with saying the names america the uk and isreal http://www.independent.ie/national-news/this-is-our-cha....html
The fletch or flechette is a miniature arrow often composed of fibreglass or plastic and designed not to create a significant entry wound or to show up on an X-ray. France was major supplier to the Bosnian conflict where fletches were fired from small calibre rifles and their victims were sent back into battle as malingerers. They are now incorporated into cluster munitions and particularly popular for crowd dispersal in flechette grenades fired over Palestinian crowds.
Calling for humanity on the battlefield may sound absurd, but no more so than demanding that no civilised nation engage in either cruel and unusual punishment, torture or other acts that demean the perpetrator and victim without adding significant tactical advantage.
The following shows the devasting impact of cluster munitions.
If many of the cluster munitions do not exploded and remain imbedded on the ground or lying on the surface you can only imagine the effect to civilians who return to the area after the conflict.
Austrialian John Rodsted finds unexploded ordinance a Lebanese battlefield.