BMJ 2008;336:470-471 (1 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39503.633947.DB
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Countries meet to draw up treaty to ban cluster bombs
Peter Moszynski
1 London
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More than 110 countries met in Wellington, New Zealand, last week at a conference to draw up a treaty banning cluster munitions.
Among cluster bomb survivors who demonstrated outside the meeting were Branislav Kapetanovic (right), a Serbian who was hurt while clearing mines, and Ahmed Yassin Najem (left), an Iraqi civilian who was hurt in Basra in 1991
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The demonstrators who carried placards saying, "Shame on UK, France, Japan, Germany and Denmark," claimed that these countries were at the core of a group of 14 countries that had tried to water down the provisions in various ways—such as limiting the definition of cluster munitions or allowing for a 10 year transition period, so that countries could continue to use their existing arsenals.
Participants said that 10-40% of the bomblets released by cluster bombs fail to detonate, posing a threat to civilians.
Several major producers and buyers of cluster bombs
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