did you know that in the last ten years u.s. cluster munitions have been used in or near civilian-populated areas in these countries with devastating consequences to civilians...when used in or near civilian areas, cluster munitions run a serious risk of violating the international humanitarian law prohibition on indiscriminate attacks...cluster munitions also often leave large numbers of unexploded sub-munitions on the ground, presenting a grave danger to civilian lives similar to landmines...but you can take citizen responsible action by urging your u.s. senators to co-sponsor the cluster munitions civilian protection act of 2007 (s. 594), which seeks to prevent the u.s. use or export of cluster bombs with high dud rates and for civilian-populated areas...it was introduced by senators feinstein, leahy, mikulski, and sanders...
originally developed to attack concentrations of infantry, u.s. cluster munitions are increasingly being used in or near civilian-populated...cluster munitions are considered to have an indiscriminate effect, and when used in civilian-populated areas, present a very high risk of violating the international humanitarian law prohibition on indiscriminate attacks...
in the last ten years, several major recipients of u.s. arms exports have used cluster munitions in civilian-populated areas...including israel firing hundreds of thousands of cluster munitions in the villages like Ainata and Rashaya al-Foukar using U.S. cluster bombs...and the colombian military dropping a cluster bomb from a u.s. supplied helicopter on the village of Santo Domingo in 1998, killing 11 adults and 6 children...
find out more about the issue and regardless of your position on military conflict please take action to protect civilian bystanders from brutal and unwarranted death and injury from the use of indiscriminate cluster bombs...
peace out <3
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