Cluster Bombs banned

[Joe9T]

1982 Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

UK aircraft drop cluster munitions on Argentinean infantry positions near Port Stanley, Port Howard, and Goose Green.

1986-1987 Chad

French aircraft drop cluster munitions on a Libyan airfield at Wadi Doum. Libyan forces also used AO-1SCh and PTAB-2.5 submunitions.

1991 Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

The US and its allies (France, Saudi Arabia, UK) drop 61,000 cluster bombs containing some 20 million submunitions. The number of cluster munitions delivered by surface-launched artillery and rocket systems during the Gulf War is not known, but an estimated 30 million or more DPICM submunitions were used in the conflict.

1992-1994 Angola

PTAB submunitions found in various locations.

1992-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh

Submunition contamination has been identified in at least 162 locations.

Submunition types cleared by deminers include PTAB-1, ShOAB-0.5, AO-2.5.

1992-1995 Bosnia & Herzegovina

Forces of Yugoslavia and NSAG use available stocks of cluster munitions during civil war. NATO aircraft drop two CBU-87 bombs.

1992-1997 Tajikistan

Use by unknown forces in civil war. ShOAB and AO-2.5RT submunitions have been found in the town of Gharm in the Rasht Valley.

1994-1996 Chechnya

Russian forces use cluster munitions against NSAG.

1995 Croatia

On May 2-3, 1995, an NSAG uses Orkan M-87 multiple rocket launchers to attack civilians in Zagreb. Additionally, the Croatian government claimed that Serb forces used BL-755 bombs in Sisak, Kutina, and along the Kupa River.

1996-1999 Sudan

Sudanese government forces use air-dropped cluster munitions in southern Sudan,

including Chilean made PM-1 submunitions.

1997 Sierra Leone

Nigerian ECOMOG peacekeepers use Beluga bombs on the eastern town of Kenema.

1998 Ethiopia / Eritrea

Ethiopia and Eritrea exchange aerial cluster munition strikes, Ethiopia attacking the Asmara airport and Eritrea attacking the Mekele airport. Ethiopia also dropped BL-755 bombs in Gash-Barka province of western Eritrea.

1998-1999 Albania

Yugoslav forces launch cross-border rocket attacks and NATO forces carry out six aerial cluster munition strikes.

1998-2003 DR Congo

BL-755 bombs used by unknown forces in Kasu village in Kabalo territory.

1999 Yugoslavia (including Serbia, Montenegro,and Kosovo)

The US, UK, and Netherlands drop 1,765 cluster bombs, containing 295,000 bomblets.

 

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

[dabuckle]

Cluster Bombs are not the biggest worry, Britain and the US have been using Depleted Uranium weapons int he Middle-East since the first Gulf war.

 

Mounting alarm over US use of depleted uranium arms in Libya, Herald Scotland , By Rob Edwards 3 Apr 2011 THE countries involved in air strikes on Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya are coming under pressure to ban the use of toxic depleted uranium (DU) weapons because of the dangers they could pose to civilians……

critics say that the US has sometimes been economical with the truth about the use of DU weapons. “We continue to seek a cast-iron guarantee that depleted uranium has not been used and will not be used in Libya,” said Kate Hudson, the general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. “The US has a long history of only admitting to deploying this radioactive material months or years after it has been used.” DU is a radioactive and chemically toxic heavy metal which has been used by UK and US military forces in armour-piercing shells fired in the Gulf, Balkans and Iraq wars, and is thought to be in use by around 18 other countries. When DU weapons burn, they release a hazardous dust.

[melthebell]

war is dirty business, the worst thing about the libyan thing is going to be the helping of the rebels by funding.

now we all know thats going to come back and bite us on the ass, as we funded afganistan and iraq and al queda when we needed them to fight our enemies, and look where that got us

[dabuckle]

war is dirty business, the worst thing about the libyan thing is going to be the helping of the rebels by funding.

now we all know thats going to come back and bite us on the ass, as we funded afganistan and iraq and al queda when we needed them to fight our enemies, and look where that got us

 

US Have always armed a nation before invading it.

Prescott Bush (George Bush's Grandfather) Help fund Hitler.

[Alien]

Ban the burqa ban the bombs...decisions decisions.

 

 

Did France sign up?

[BritPat]

war is dirty business, the worst thing about the libyan thing is going to be the helping of the rebels by funding.

now we all know thats going to come back and bite us on the ass, as we funded afganistan and iraq and al queda when we needed them to fight our enemies, and look where that got us

 

I knew that you were going to say something intelligent one day.

[Rand Hobart]

Have a strong stomach? Want to know what you taxes go on?

Google D U babies and the click on images. Dabuckle is right, cluster bombs are just the visual tip of a very large iceberg

Next time some politician is telling you that we have to have these cuts, keep these images in your mind. These people make a conscious decision to create this horror when they don't have to. DU munitions are very expensive. Maybe they could make some of their cuts here.

[alchresearch]

Were outraged by Gaddaffi using "cluster bombs", but cluster bombs were used extensively in the Gulf War, Chechnya, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, in Lebanon in 2006 and in Georgia in 2008 by the Americans, Soviets and Israel!!! HYPOCRITES!!!!!!

 

I heard the claims on the news this morning too that Israelis have used Cluster Bombs and I also thought "hypocrites".

[Hots on]

war is dirty business, the worst thing about the libyan thing is going to be the helping of the rebels by funding.

now we all know thats going to come back and bite us on the ass, as we funded afganistan and iraq and al queda when we needed them to fight our enemies, and look where that got us

 

Cluster bombs aside, Advanced military hardware has kept the world relatively peaceful; Without the mutually assured destruction between developed countries thanks to the military hardware they all possess, humans all over the world would still be testing each others metal on a grand scale to this day.