LIMA, Peru
An international conference seeking a global ban on cluster bombs opened in Lima Wednesday, with delegates pointing out that the victims are often children who pick up unexploded munitions years after the fighting has ended.
“We should be worried that most of those killed or maimed are innocent civilians, mainly children who don’t know what wars are”, Branislav Kapetanovic, himself a cluster bomb victim, said to loud applause from delegates representing some 70 countries.
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/24/1416
An international conference seeking a global ban on cluster bombs opened in Lima Wednesday, with delegates pointing out that the victims are often children who pick up unexploded munitions years after the fighting has ended.
“We should be worried that most of those killed or maimed are innocent civilians, mainly children who don’t know what wars are”, Branislav Kapetanovic, himself a cluster bomb victim, said to loud applause from delegates representing some 70 countries.
MORE by Agence France Presse staff
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/24/1416