I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill

Aug 21, 2008

ALERT: Cluster bombs that can expode any moment!!! THEY ARE LEFT EVEYWHERE BY RUSSIANS!!


Georgian and Russian authorities should take urgent measures to protect the civilian population in Georgian villages from unexploded ordnance left by Russian attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch researchers documented additional Russian cluster munitions attacks during the conflict in Georgia, refuting Russia's earlier denials that it used the weapon. Human Rights Watch researchers saw and photographed unexploded submunitions from cluster munitions in and around the villages of Shindisi, in the Gori district of Georgia. Residents from Shindisi and the nearby Pkhvenisi village told Human Rights Watch researchers there are hundreds of unexploded submunitions in the area. Submunition "duds" are highly dangerous and can explode if picked up or otherwise disturbed.
 
Human Rights Watch called upon Russia to immediately stop using cluster munitions, weapons so dangerous to civilians that more than 100 nations have agreed to ban their use.
 
Zura Tatrishvili, 62, showed Human Rights Watch researchers an unexploded submunition that he had picked up without realizing that just touching it could make it explode. "We were playing with them, as were the Georgian soldiers," said Tatrishvili. "It was only when one of the bombs exploded after a soldier threw it that we understood that they were dangerous." Even now, Tatrishvili continues to keep his livestock in a pen with unexploded submunitions, demonstrating the need for clearance as well as education.
 
During the attack on August 8 in Shindisi, Vano Gogidze, 45, was killed and his relative, Dato Gogidze, 39, was injured. Also in Shindisi, Ramaz Arabashvili, 40, was killed and four people were wounded when a submunition that they had gathered from a field exploded on August 10. On August 18, in Pkhvenisi, Veliko Bedianashvili, 70, died when a submunition exploded in his hand. "There are so many of these lying around. The fields are full of them," said his son, Durmiskhan Bedianashvili.
 
Cluster munitions contain dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions or bomblets and cause unacceptable humanitarian harm in two ways. First, their broad-area effect kills and injures civilians indiscriminately during strikes. Second, many submunitions do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that cause civilian casualties for months or years to come.
 

THE ARTICLE SEE YOU HERE http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/ff8d2d925b55f0975913a03cb70eefd6.htm
AN HERE http://www.google.nl/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=nl&q=CLUSTER+BOMBS+GEORGIA&meta=&btnG=Google+zoeken  
CLUSTER BOMBS USED IN GEORGIA! MORE ARTICLES
 
 
SPREAD THIS INFORMATION !!!!!!!!! TODAY MUST BE DONE EVREYTHING TO PREVENT MORE CASUALTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

CLUSTER BOMBS AND ALSO GRANADES ARE LEFT EVEYWHERE ON THE TERRITORY OF GEORGIA! THAT CAN EXPLODE ANY MOMENT IF PUCKED UP, CHILDERN IN DANGER !!!!! DO SOMETHING

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