By Katrina Quick LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - cluster bomb attacks and unexploded munitions killed or injured nearly 1,600 people in Syria in the past two years ? 97 percent of them civilians ? an international campaign group said on Wednesday. Both South Sudan, the world?s newest nation, and Ukraine also used cluster munitions in the first half of 2014, defying the 2008 treaty banning the production, stockpiling and use of the *******, the cluster Munition Coalition said in the report. ?Appallingly, last year in Syria there were more casualties and civilian suffering from cluster munitions than at any other time or place since Monitor reporting began,? said Megan Burke of the Survivor Network Project, editor of the casualties and victim assistance chapter of the report. The report said there were at least 1,584 casualties from cluster munition attacks and unexploded submunitions in Syria over the last two years, and that 97 percent of them were civilians, the highest rate ever recorded.
08-28-2014, 05:14 AM
Most victims of Syrian cluster bombs are civilian: campaign group
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