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A new hope for humanity in the dark clouds of wars


1st August 2010, a day may be a triumph for human right activist demanding a
total ban on the production and usage of cluster bombs to be bombarded on the soft
civilian targets in pursuit of so called war enemies, there is no justification as to why this
devastating weapon was cannibalized by the western powers to annihilate the poor
rivals on major war fronts, leaving the obliterating effect to purport causalities and
deaths to the future generation dwelling in the bombarded spot.

Cluster bombs was first developed by Germans , also referred as SD-2 or


butterfly bomb to be used against the allied forces in the world war 2 accountable for
killing thousands of people, in 1943 Soviet forces used air-dropped cluster munitions
against long rival German armor the Germans responded with the use of SD-1 and SD-1
butterfly against artillery on the Kursk salient, during the same year German air force
dropped thousands of SD-2 cluster bombs on the port of Grimsby, ever since Cluster
bombing has used to erased the whole villages, town, and suburbs, with an intention to
remove any human sign from the targeted place, the very recent example of merciless
cluster bombing was found to be in Afghanistan and Iraq, an estimated 1,228 cluster
bombs have been dropped on Afghanistan , a country with the largest numbers of land
mine explosives waiting to be exploded, cluster bombing further augmented the
chances of human fatality. There is no example of brutality and invader’s terrorism
where 13,000 cluster munitions containing an estimated 1.8 to 2 million submunition
within three weeks were dropped, wiping out the whole town from an extinct.

Why cluster bombing so devastating?


Cluster bombs can be ground-lunched or air- dropped, each bomb contains small
smaller submunition to be ejected, these small bomb lets poses perils to civilians before
and after the attack, they indiscriminately kill civilians as they are prone to explode even
after long time of the conflict, unfortunately the bomb was designed with a thought to
cause heavy causalities to civilians , there is not a good correlation between cluster
bomb attacks and enemy armor destruction, mostly innocent civilians are victimized,
Times Asia published eye-witness account on the destructive effects of cluster bombing
in Iraq on 10th April 2010.

All over Baghdad, the city's five main hospitals


simply cannot cope with an avalanche of
civilian casualties. Doctors can't get to the
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hospitals because of the bombing. Dr Osama


Saleh-al-Duleimi, at the al-Kindi hospital,
confirms the absolute majority of patients are
women and children, victims of bullets,
shrapnel and most of all, fragments of cluster
bombs: “They are all civilians,” he says,
“caught in aerial and artillery bombardment”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) is in a state of almost desperation. Its
spokesman, Roland Huguenin-Benjamin,
contacted by satellite telephone, still mentions
casualties arriving at hospitals at a rate of as
many as 100 per hour and at least 100 per day.

The cost of removing dismantling the unexploded mines is too high especially for countries like
Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chad, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq who were
ruthlessly bombed by western powers like USA, Russia and France.

The Convention on Cluster Munitions really a triumph ?

After a long struggle of human right activist, the Obama administration cluster munitions cause
unacceptable harm to civilians, the US will no longer use cluster munitions that have a failure
rate of more than one percent - in essence banning all but a tiny fraction of the existing arsenal,
Many former users, producers, and stockpiles of cluster munitions have joined the Convention
on Cluster Munitions, as have many contaminated countries. But several key countries still
remain outside, including Brazil, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, Russia, and the
United States.

In the old two rivals Pakistan and India are not convinced to join the treaty, It may end up as a
fiasco, what about Israel using such ammunition in Lebanon and Gaza indiscriminately, for this
conviction to hold the ground, for this convention to become a triumph Pakistan and India
should be pressurized to sign a treaty on complete removal of cluster bombs production, but
there is skepticism about the industries involved in developing cluster bombs, would it be win-
win situation for all ? Or will they be forced by the governments to shut the production, since
in the USA military contractor like Alliant Techsystems and Lockheed Martin can exert pressure
on the US government, off course the existence of long-term rival Al-Qaida may influence US
attitude on banning these bombs to be used in the future or any war front.
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References
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/07/29/international-cluster-bomb-ban-takes-effect

http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/the-problem/history-harm/

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/killed-by-cluster-bombs/

http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=240

Further reading

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/07/29/international-cluster-bomb-ban-takes-effect
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http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/07/29/international-cluster-bomb-ban-takes-effect

http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/the-problem/history-harm/

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/killed-by-cluster-bombs/

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