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Saudi-Led Coalition Using Prohibited Weapons In Yemen

DUBAI – The Saudi-led coalition has been reported to be using cluster bombs supplied by the US in its air campaign against Houthi rebels.

Human Rights Watch warned of the long-term dangers to civilians with the use of such weapons. The widely banned munitions contain dozens of sub munitions, which sometimes do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that can kill or maim long after they were dropped.

HRW said it had gathered photographs, video and other evidences indicating that cluster munitions had been used in coalition air strikes against the Houthi rebel’s stronghold of Saada province in Yemen’s northern mountains.

It said that analysis of satellite imagery suggested that the weapons had landed on a cultivated plateau, within six hundred meters of populated areas.

Cluster munitions are prohibited by a 2008 treaty adopted by 116 countries, but not by Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners or the United States.

“Saudi-led cluster munitions used in air strikes have been hitting areas near villages, putting local people in danger,” said HRW arms director Steve Goose.

“Saudi Arabia and other coalition members, and the supplier, the US, are flouting the global standard that rejects cluster munitions because of their long-term threat to civilians.”

HRW said that the munitions used in Yemen appeared to be the CBU-105 Sensor Fused Weapons manufactured by the Textron Systems Corporation and supplied to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the United States in recent years.

The weapon is banned by the Convention on Cluster Munitions but Washington permits its use and exports because it boasts an unexploded ordnance rate of less than one per cent.

HRW called for that loophole to be plugged and for deliveries of the weapons to be ceased.

 

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