Cluster Bomb Victims Overwhelmingly Civilians
Civilians, a quarter of them children, make up almost all the victims of cluster bombs over the last three decades, a humanitarian agency said on Thursday. In a study of 24 countries and regions, Handicap International said the controversial weapons, which scatter munitions over a wide area, had killed, wounded or maimed 11,044 people of whom 98 percent were civilians. The under-reporting of victims in such places as Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam meant the real total could be almost 10 times higher, it said. Some 27 percent of the victims were children, mainly boys, who were working or playing in areas where munitions were lying around after failing to explode on impact. "For 30 years governments have failed to address the disproportionate, long-term harm these weapons cause to civilian populations," Angelo Simonazzi, the agency's director general, said in a statement. Cluster bombs were recently used by Israel in its month-long war in Lebanon against Hezbollah guerrillas.
Yes, the Bush administration claims the ‘terrorists’ target civilians, and then goes and uses cluster bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, which mainly target civilians. Furthermore, they sell cluster bombs to Israel, who goes and uses them in the last days of the war against Lebanon this past summer. Last I heard, 20+ people, all CIVILIANS, have been killed in Lebanon by the cluster bombs used by Israel and MADE IN THE USA. And that was after the war was over.
This is murderous hypocrisy!
And they wonder “why they hate us”?
2 comments:
Hello! I did not know your blog existed until I saw comments by you posted at Gorilla's Guide.
I've looked over what you have written about and was especially pleased to see that you posted the Kucinich letter. Thanks!
Few Congressmen are well-informed and aware.
Kucinich is one who is.
Did you know that during the Summer break in August, he and his wife visited South Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank? They were able to see first-hand the devastation from Israeli aerial attacks in all 3 places as well as talk with the people. The trip was kept under wraps beforehand as well as after, as far as I know.
I worked with Kucinich supporters in Oregon two years ago and continue to keep in touch.
I like your series of entries focusing on examples of hypocracy. The chuch signboard pictures are good choices.
thank you.... and I will post a link to the church sign maker when I finish this series........which is going to take a while, since I hardly can keep up with these hypocrites!
KUCINICH IS GREAT.
I meet Mel Watt this past Sunday, and he is great too!
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