An Enduring Legacy
The Americans also dropped about 285 million cluster bombs on Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, according to the Pentagon. In August 2000, a quarter of a century after the Vietnam war ended, one of them exploded and killed six children in the central province of Binh Dinh.
Cluster bombs are being dispersed willy-nilly across Iraq. But it’s not just the US/UK forces that are flirting with barbarism.
Human Rights Watch said yesterday that Iraqi forces stored more than 150 landmines in a mosque containing the tombs of Kurdish martyrs in violation of humanitarian law … “any use of antipersonnel mines by any armed force is prohibited by customary international humanitarian law since they are inherently indiscriminate weapons.”