Articles by Anaclara Padilla Estrada
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Cluster Bombs
Anaclara Padilla Estrada – Pravda,
26 Jul 2010
Cluster bombs, which began to be used in Vietnam, affect more civilians than combatants. The conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon are the latest where they have been used. During the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, in the summer of 2006, more than 4 million submunitions were dropped in southern Lebanon, causing more casualties and destruction than any other weapons. The forthcoming ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions is a big step, not without difficulties and challenges, to eliminate a weapon that does not discriminate between civilian and military targets.
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