The Use of Cluster Bombs on Yemen

March 12/ Yemeni press

According to a report by Amnesty International, the coalition led by Saudi Arabia it has recently launched a Brazilian-made rockets containing cluster munitions are banned in the bombing of three residential and agricultural land surrounding the central regions of Saada city, injuring two and causing material damage to civilians.

In a commentary on the continuation of the coalition the use of cluster munitions, Lynn Maalouf, director of the research department at Amnesty International’s regional office in Beirut, it said that “coalition led by Saudi Arabia trying in vain to justify the use of cluster munitions by claiming that it complies with international law, although concrete on the human cost to civilians caught up in the conflict of evidence. ”

It added: “The cluster munitions, weapons non-discriminatory, by nature, harm to unimaginable lives of civilians.”.

And Amnesty International has asked Brazil “to accede to the Convention on the prohibition of the use of cluster munitions, and asked Saudi Arabia and its partners in the coalition to end the use of these weapons.”

And characterized by cluster bomblets as having a high rate in terms of “bang failure” -What means that a high percentage of them do not explode on impact and become de facto landmines threaten civilians for years.

And published several organizations for the defense of human rights, including Amnesty International and the “Human Rights Watch” several reports on the use of Saudi Arabia of cluster bombs in its attacks on Yemen.
He accused “and Human Rights Watch,” in December last year, the military alliance under the leadership of Saudi Arabia Brazilian throwing cluster bombs near two schools in Saada Portal attack killed two civilians and wounded six others, including a child.

According to the so-called “Yemeni Center for Human Rights and Development” during the barbaric war waged by Saudi Arabia to Yemen killed more than 11 thousand and 400 people.

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