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”?
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