Warning about the use of cluster bombs in the war in Ukraine

  The use of cluster bombs in the Ukrainian war and its dangerous consequences have angered many human rights defenders and even international institutions. Recently, Izumi Nakamitsu, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, has warned about the actions of Western countries to give Ukraine these weapons and demanded that their use be stopped immediately. He has said that these weapons are dangerous to human life and should be completely erased from history. Indicating that the use of weapons in any armed conflict raises serious concerns about the increase in chaos and tensions between two or several sides, he said: 'We are very concerned about the reports of Ukraine being given weapons containing depleted uranium.'

US cluster bombs have been sent to Ukraine in the past several months, where the weapons have been used extensively in its war with Russia. This is in a situation where the disaster and loss caused by the bombs is long-term and thus raises great concern in the community. Mark Hiznai, associate director for arms issues at Human Rights Watch, says: Part of the international law on this issue relates to indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Nuclear weapons provided by the United States to Ukraine More than 120 countries have joined the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Use of Cluster Bombs and have agreed to stop using, producing, transferring or stockpiling such weapons. They have also promised to clean up the areas where the weapons were distributed after the end of the war. But the United States, Russia and Ukraine have not signed the agreement and now the United States has increased the war in Ukraine by giving that country dangerous weapons. Cluster bombs typically release a large number of submunitions that can be distributed randomly over a large area.

The bombs kill many people and those that did not explode remain in the ground for decades after the end of the war and thus become a great threat to the security of ordinary citizens. According to published reports, ordinary citizens are the main victims of cluster bombs, where they account for 95 percent of the victims of those bombs. In addition, 71 percent of the people who lost their lives due to the bombings last year were children. In fact, cluster bombs target future generations where unexploded ones remain in the ground for years and thus endanger the lives of innocent people. But despite that, the American forces are still using those internationally banned weapons. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, the United States initially considered cluster bombs to be an important part of its weapons during its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. The human rights group estimated that it was a military coalition led by the United States against the Islamic country. dropped more than 1,500 cluster bombs on the country in the first three years of the war.

The US Department of Defense was supposed to stop using any cluster bombs by 2019, but the Donald Trump administration lifted the ban and allowed the country's commanders to authorize their use. Donald Trump Now, President Joe Biden of the United States, has expanded the war in Ukraine by using the country's dangerous weapons while hoping that it will win the final victory in that war. According to the United Nations, more than a third of Ukraine's land has been contaminated by cluster bombs. It is still unclear why Ukraine has taken the decision to use cluster bombs whose effects last for at least 50 years, and why it is willing to pay such a high price. In addition to that, the thing that is not in doubt is that Ukraine has also taken a decision that is neither moral nor humane against its own people. Human rights groups describe cluster bombs as "abhorrent" and even war crimes. While condemning the act of the United States of sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, they call that act a very terrible mistake. Despite all these warnings, cluster bombs are still being used in the war in Ukraine, bombs that will continue to kill people even after the war is over, as we see landmines doing in war zones that ended many years ago.