“Cluster munitions are among the most harmful weapons to civilians, as they disperse bomblets indiscriminately across a wide area that often fail to explode on initial impact, leaving duds that litter communities and endanger civilians, especially children, decades after a conflict ends,” the U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition, an organization that supports a comprehensive ban on U.S. cluster bombs, wrote in a statement on Friday.

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    1 year ago

    The humanitarian concern about the ongoing war of aggression (where Russia is using these bombs on Ukrainian civilians) outweighs the concern on this matter… Where Ukraine is furthermore using them on their own soil…