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Syria’s volunteer sappers

Volunteers in opposition-held areas of Syria are forced to improvise as they carry out one of the world’s most dangerous tasks: dismantling cluster munitions, landmines and explosive booby-traps as they work to make battle-torn areas safe for civilians to return. Continue reading

Italia: in discussione una legge per contrastare la produzione di mine e bombe a grappolo

In discussione in questi giorni al Senato un provvedimento che mira a togliere ogni sostegno finanziario alle società che producono bombe a grappolo (cluster bombs) e mine antiuomo. Il servizio di Rai Parlamento da 3′ 45” Continue reading

Cluster bombs monitor: Italy

The Republic of Italy signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 21 September 2011, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 March 2012. Continue reading Cluster bombs monitor: Italy

CLUSTER BOMBS #2: GUAVA

North Vietnamese called “Guava” (another tropical fruit, similar to an apple) a model of cluster bomb much more lethal than the “Pineapple: the BLU 26. Continue reading CLUSTER BOMBS #2: GUAVA