Early December 2008: Nations sign Cluster Bomb Treaty
"The cluster bomb treaty will save countless lives by stigmatizing a weapon that kills civilians even after the fighting ends. President-elect Barack Obama should make joining the cluster ban treaty a top priority."
Governments from around the world are signing the most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty of the decade, banning the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions ('bombies', 'dumb bombs'), and obligating them to provide victim assistance and to clear contaminated land. 105 countries have signed this treaty.
In 1999, Human Rights Watch was the first nongovernmental organization to call for a global halt to the use of cluster munitions.
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How Cluster Bombs 'work'
Airplane dropping dispensers (containers for submunition). Photo: youTube
The despenser falls ...
... and opens up.
The submunition = the bomblets (hundreds) get released ...
and fall in a big cloud to the ground.
If you are made out of flesh and are down there, you won't survive.
And afterwords the big clue: The bombs often lie undetonated for years, posing a huge danger to farmers clearing land or children who mistake them for toys.So ... why are/were Cluster Bombs used? Because of 'military rationality'? Designated to specific military purposes, like for example: blocking the ways (escape ways) of people or to extinguish tank attackers. Erecting deadly borders and dead ends?
A rational military point of view might say "YES" to the use of Cluster Bombs.
What could be put on the other side, unto the No-to-ClusterBombs side?
If one says, that faith or things of faith are kinda opposite to things of rationality, what kind of faith, what things of faith could make the scale to favor a NO to ClusterBombs?
Are Human rights 'rational', or/and does one have to believe in them or are they something 'real'? Or is there something in the back of our brains or hearts that tells us we should not do unto others, what we don't want to happen to ourselves?
The use of ClusterBombs materially might show a moralic and spiritual speculation. You will never use them IN the will of G-d, just in- and by the will of your nation, your ideologoy etc. or your personal madness.
Cluster Bombs have similar effects like grenades or shells. If one person, citizen of a state, a criminal or crazy one would hide or use such a 'Bombie' for example in a KinderGarten and children would be hurt, he or she would go into jail for at least 10 years and maybe or most probably even get a lifetime sentence. Thus would happen in a civilized society and state that got laws to prevent people from eating each other.
So 1 grenade, 1 shell or 1 Cluster Bomb equals at least 10 years of jail as punishment.
How many ClusterBombs have been produced and used and how many years of jail deserve those ... that use(d) these military instruments? Yes, just a vain stupid question.
Nevertheless:
If a state plants granades (which earn each 10 years of jail) in another country/state, how many years of jail does this state earn?
How would a state be punished in a civilized world (conglomeration of states)? Does the state get punished? Or does it get away, with others looking the other side? Or are the 'others' happy that at least no nuclear weapons were involved in the conflict?
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The agreement reached in Oslo in 2008 bans the majority of current designs of cluster bombsand requires signatory states to destroy their stockpiles within eight years.
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