{"id":1448,"date":"2003-04-03T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2003-04-03T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T21:38:00","slug":"an-enduring-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/03\/17\/38\/an-enduring-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Enduring Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/2912617.stm\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Cluster bombs are being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news2003\/0401-01.htm\">dispersed willy-nilly<\/a> across Iraq. But it&#8217;s not just the US\/UK forces that are flirting with barbarism.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,929366,00.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 &#8230; &#8220;any use of antipersonnel mines by any armed force is prohibited by customary international humanitarian law since they are inherently indiscriminate weapons.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}