Cluster Bombs: A Weapon out of Control - Human Rights Watch

Short film documenting the lethal effects of the use of cluster munitions worldwide, with commentary, new statistics and analysis from military experts at Human Rights Watch. Footage shows how cluster munitions have endangered civilian populations from the Vietnam era through current conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon. During the last THREE DAYS of the War on Lebanon, Israel fired up to 4,000,000 cluster bomblets according to UN estimates - twice the amount used by the US in the attack on Iraq in 2003.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm
Author: mingoi313

Length: 05:58
Rating: 4.51
Views: 23618

Tags: arms bomblets bombs cluster collateral collective damage hrw human israel lebanon punishment rights watch wmd

Video Comments

cayetanoluis (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Oh no, you HAD control, you just don't anymore. When cozy relations between US corporations and corrupt oligarchies were finally shaken by the people, your goon squads wiped out 300,000 people in Central America under that cunt Reagan.Yet today, America is the one coming out second best in this struggle. America can't do much because no one would tolerate a coup these days, and they can't go in and bomb the place like was done in Vietnam because the American people wouldn't put up with that.

cayetanoluis (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

More importantly, we might ponder whether the US even has the right to be in Iraq.

cayetanoluis (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

"Actually just to throw some logic at you, if you're the guy protesting the cluster bombs and I'm the guy loading them up to drop on the said protestors"Who said anything about protesters? Are you also such an arsehole that you want to set up a fascist police state?See, moral effluent like you only THINK you're going to win. The filth you backed in Latin America were all driven from power by the people. They were kicked out of Vietnam. Arseholes like you just hide behind missiles and bombs.

cayetanoluis (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

"As for Latin America, eh... we've never had control, it's like Africa, they change governments weekly and are too busy killing each other to be civilized."Right, but when the US installs a genocidal regime in Guatemala, that's not uncivilised. People like you have NO fucking clue about anything that goes on outside your narrow little concerns."Let the animals wipe themselves out."Actually, the animals have all been driven from power by the people who suffered under them. Fuck those Nazis

job1181 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Actually just to throw some logic at you, if you're the guy protesting the cluster bombs and I'm the guy loading them up to drop on the said protestors... exactly who do you think will be left standing? History remembers the winner, never the guy who came in second. Which for your side to be victorius I find it ironically funny you'd have to become exactly what you hate to be able to defeat what you hate. Life is just humorus that way.

job1181 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Yep you're right Karl Marx, typo. Actually it's a joke because for it to work everyone has to follow it which very few countries abide by it. A two great examples being the Geneva and Hague Convention. Also while the U.S. might have only 6% of the total world population, we're the only super power left. As for Latin America, eh... we've never had control, it's like Africa, they change governments weekly and are too busy killing each other to be civilized. Let the animals wipe themselves out.

america0is0screwed (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

i dont care what you humanitarian people think if we dont drop bombs just because it may kill civilians we wont get anything done. yeah i know its sad this happens but im gonna tell you something its WAR!

WolYou (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Its so sad that there isn't anyone using cluster bombs in the USA. So people there fail completely to empathize with the impact of cluster bombs. Less than 1% failure? So its only 40 million bomblets. I'm feeling much safer now.

cayetanoluis (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

"Otherwise... lol... cluster bombs away."Only ethically deformed cunts say things like that. People like you will be remembered someday with the contempt you deserve, and the world will have been glad to be rid of your kind.

cayetanoluis (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

"When you quote Carl Marx"I think you mean Karl Marx."Also "international law" is a joke,"It is to people like you. Actually, THANKS to people like you, it's a joke. "why it even exists is beyond me"Trust me, lots of things are beyond you. "As for the rest of the world... you're small, we're big, shit happens, get over it."Actually, the United States only has 6 percent of the world's population. By the way, how do you like it that Latin America is slipping away from your control?