'Camera man killed by cluster bomb'
Friday 15 August 2008
The death of Dutch camera man Stan Storimans earlier this week was caused by a Russian attack with a cluster bomb, according to Human Rights Watch in a statement on Friday.
The organisation claims it has proof that Russia used cluster bombs in residential areas of Georgia and that one of the bombs launched at the city of Gori on Tuesday killed RTL journalist Storimans and seven others.
In May this year over a hundred countries signed a convention banning cluster bombs. But the major producers of the bombs, including Russia, were not at the meeting.
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This is the first known use of cluster munitions since 2006, during Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Cluster munitions contain dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions or bomblets. They cause unacceptable humanitarian harm in two ways. First, their broad-area effect kills and injures civilians indiscriminately during strikes. Second, many submunitions do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that cause civilian casualties for months or years to come. In May 2008, 107 nations agreed to a total ban on cluster munitions, but Russia did not participate in the talks.
By Andrzej Leszczynski | August 15, 2008 11:43 AM