Cluster bombs in Libya

Human Rights Watch reports that Kaddafi is now using mortar-launched cluster bombs in Misrata. This particular type of cluster bomb explodes in the air above the target and spreads 21 smaller bombs over the area. Obviously it is devastating to civilians.

Three years ago in Dublin, Ireland, the international Convention on Cluster Munitions adopted a specific convention that prohibits the use of cluster weapons because of what they do to civilians. 108 countries signed the convention. Libya did not, nor did Russia nor China nor Israel..... nor the USA.