Cluster Bomb Treaty

1. The cluster bomb is dropped from a plane and can fly about nine miles before releasing its load of about 200 bomb-lets.
2.The canister starts to spin and open at an altitude between 1,000m and 100 m releasing and spraying the bomblets across a wide area.
3.Each is the size of a soft drink can and contains hundred of sharp metal pieces. When it explodes, can cause deadly injuries up to 25 m away.

The first of more than 100 countries have begun signing a treaty to ban current designs of cluster bombs, at a conference in Oslo, Norway. But some of the biggest stockpiles countries including USA, Russia, China and Israel are not the signatories; unfortunately the good intention of the treaty to protect civilians worldwide from the horror of these very dangerous weapon of war is not fully embraced by some government of above countries which remain steadfast to the believed that causing massive civilian deaths and casualty is an acceptable act and refuse to end targeting civilians in time of war through their stockpiles.

First developed during world war ll, critics argue that cluster bombs are immoral because of the danger posed to civilians from bombs that do not explode and litter the ground like landmines. The path to cluster bombs can be traced through the mountains and the rice paddies of south east Asia where several hundred million sub-munitions were dropped and ten of millions remain today. Civilians living in Laos ,Cambodia and Vietnam have lived with the threat from the remain of these unexploded sub-munitions, that have caused so much anxiety and harm to the population for four decade.