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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

people still getting killed every day by cluster bombs

UN slams Israel's cluster bomb use in Lebanon, by Alistair Lyon

"The outrageous fact is that nearly all of these munitions were fired in the last three to four days of the war," David Shearer, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon, told a news conference in Beirut. "Outrageous because by that stage the conflict had been largely resolved in the form of (UN Security Council) Resolution 1701," he said...

Chris Clark, manager of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre of South Lebanon, said the cluster bomb threat in the south was "extensive and, in my opinion, unprecedented"...

Shearer said cluster bombs had killed or wounded an average of three people a day since the war ended, with 15 killed, including a child, and 83 wounded, of whom 23 are children...

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