Cluster Bombs conference in Dublin

Take it away, Dermot Ahern:

The Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions to negotiate a new instrument of international humanitarian law banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians will take place from 19-30 May 2008. This will be the critical stage in the process which began in Oslo in February 2007 and has continued in Lima in May 2007, Vienna in December 2007 and Wellington in February 2008.

So a fairly noble cause then. But wait, what’s a cluster bomb? Wikipedia has the detail, but where do you go when you want to see things exploding?

A REAL video of a WCMD cluster-bomb ANNIHILATING a battlefield with THOUSANDS of tiny explosive bomblets! PLUS: incredible ULTRA-SLOW-MOTION of the explosions! AWESOME!!!

So they look like the sort of thing that should be banned. Bad news then, that the US have decided to skip this conference. I don’t think even Paul McCartney can change their minds.

www.clustermunitionsdublin.ie

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