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Cluster bomb meeting drafts treaty.
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Ploughshares Monitor
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June 22, 2008
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A two-week international meeting in Dublin ended May 30 with an agreed text for a treaty to ban existing types of cluster bombs, destroy stockpiles within eight years, and provide crucial victim assistance
Cluster munitions can be fired by artillery or dropped from military aircraft to spread dozens or even hundreds of small "bomblets." Although these munitions were designed to attack troop and vehicle concentrations, their use often results in significant civilian deaths and injuries when the bomblets fail to detonate on initial impact. The munitions become de facto landmines that can be triggered by livestock, farmers, or children mistaking them for toys. (1)
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