The use of anti-personnel weapons against non-combatants is both a violation of the Geneva Convention and is a recognized War Crime if it can be proven deliberate and methodical that can be prosecuted in The Hague.

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" Friday, August 15, 2008
Russians use Cluster Munitions Against Civilians  "



" The authorities of Georgia possess comprehensive evidence, proving that different types of heavy conventional weapons, including cluster munitions, Rocket Complex 9M72 Iskander (SS-26 Stone) etc., have been indiscriminately used against civilian population and infrastructure of Georgia. The utilization of such weapons against peaceful population and civilian objects vividly reveals the inhuman brutality of Russian troops acting on the territory of Georgia.

The number of civilian targets bombed or otherwise attacked by the Russian armed forces clearly indicates that it was not just a collateral damage: apartment buildings, Gori market and municipality, Poti seaport, the railway station and airport in Senaki, BTC pipeline, Kopitnari airport near Kutaisi, airfield in Upper Abkhazia, bridges linking eastern and western Georgia, civilian radar station near Tbilisi, etc.

It must be especially stressed, that the use of cluster munitions against civilian population is especially cynical next to the background of the efforts applied by the international community to restrict and even ban such types of weaponry.

Even after reaching agreement on August 12 on principles of resolution of Georgian-Russian conflict, mediated by the President of France, Russian Federation still continued bombing of civilian targets far beyond the conflict regions, causing mass destruction of infrastructure and severe physical and moral damage to the civilian population. Considering the aforementioned facts, we get a clear picture that the Russian troops continued their atrocities against civilian population of Georgia long after factual cease of hostilities against the Georgian armed forces, thus severely violating core principles of international humanitarian law. "



http://georgiamfa.blogspot.com/2008/08/russians-use-cluster-munitions-against.ht...

Europe remains " Wide Open " for the taking and the United States is completely POWERLESS ( read : Iraqi Quagmire ) .

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Jacky Putin'

Joey, there is a democratically posted thread on this topic already. You must withdraw this thread immediately!

" Joey, there is a democratically posted thread on this topic already. You must withdraw this thread immediately! "


Some Guy ............................

The World is finally recognizing that a Putin unfettered by oversight of public accountability is an extremely dangerous thing.  Especially for the US.  Then again, you heard that here first several years ago.  The nice thing about war crimes is that there is no statute of limitations, and he’d know that.  In the end, he’s still human like the rest of us.



From my ' Right Wing Evil Twin ' Skippy ! :



I like cluster bombs.  They are so horrifically effective they almost serve as a deterrent threat to an opposing force.  But using them indiscriminately against non-combatants is inexcusable.  The problem with bombs in general is that they are non-selective about their targets.  That’s especially true for cluster bombs that tend to leave undetonated bomblets scattered across the battlefield (double-especially the older style cluster bombs) creating a randomized default minefield.  And the submunitions are very powerful.

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Ho Chi Joe

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Joey

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Yes , but Eastern Europe remains Wide Open ( see : Paris Hilton )

robpop wrote on Aug 15^th, 2008 at 3:09pm:

Postin above the salary cap.