Important Event In New Zealand To Limit Cluster Bombs Usage

The use of deadly cluster bombs by the Israelis in south Lebanon will be at the heart of discussions in New Zealand today aimed at limiting the use of cluster bomb munitions.

Cluster bombs have an uncanny ability to target children (40% of victims are children). Cluster bombs are not “controversial”, they are wrong, plain and simple. They should be banned and the Lebanese should push hard for that. Here are some websites where you can take action:

• Cluster Munition Coalition, action page

• New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition.

For more information, you can check these very useful links:

• Human Rights Watch report “Flooding South Lebanon: Israel’s Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006

• Human Rights Watch’s work on cluster munitions