13 Facts About Cluster bombs

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Cluster bombs munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions.

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Cluster bombs munitions are prohibited for those nations that ratified the Convention on Cluster bombs Munitions, adopted in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2008.

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Incendiary cluster bombs are intended to start fires, just like conventional incendiary bombs .

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4.

Halutz claimed that some cluster bombs had been fired against his direct order, which stated that cluster bombs should be used with extreme caution and not be fired into populated areas.

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Cluster bombs remnants were discovered by a UN de-mining team in February 2014 on a section of road near the Jonglei state capital, Bor.

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British-supplied and U S -supplied cluster bombs have been used by Saudi Arabian-led military coalition against Houthi militias in Yemen, according to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

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Cluster bombs munitions are opposed by many individuals and hundreds of groups, such as the Red Cross, the Cluster bombs Munition Coalition and the United Nations, because of the high number of civilians that have fallen victim to the weapon.

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Cluster bombs fall under the general rules of international humanitarian law, but were not specifically covered by any currently binding international legal instrument until the signature of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in December 2008.

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Convention on Cluster bombs Munitions entered into force on 1 August 2010, six months after it was ratified by 30 states.

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Cluster bombs munitions have been determined as needed for ensuring the country's national security interests, but measures were taken to address humanitarian concerns of their use, as well as pursuing their original suggested alternative to a total ban of pursuing technological fixes to make the weapons no longer viable after the end of a conflict.

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Countries listed in bold have signed and ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, agreeing in principle to ban cluster bombs.

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Countries listed in bold have signed and ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, agreeing in principle to ban cluster bombs.

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Countries listed in bold have signed and ratified the Convention on Cluster bombs Munitions, agreeing in principle that their stockpiles should be destroyed.

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