According to BBC News, unexploded cluster
munitions have been found for
the first time in Sri Lanka, a UN
expert on land mines Allan Poston
has claimed. Poston is the technical
adviser for the UN Development
Programme's mine action group
in Sri Lanka. In an email, he
said that small bombs from the
weapons were discovered in the
North, near to where a child
was killed in an explosion last
month. The Government has denied
that it ever used cluster bombs
during the civil war with Tamil
Tiger rebels. Cluster bombs
are banned under an international
treaty that took effect in August
2010. The treaty has been signed
by more than 60 countries, but
not Sri Lanka, China, Russia,
India, Pakistan and the US -
who all argue that the bombs
are a legitimate weapon of war
when used properly. |
