USA uses war crime cluster munitions

Amnesty International has released evidence
showing that the United States was directly
involved in an air strike in Yemen in
December that killed fifty-five people,
including fourteen women and twenty-one
children. Photographs released by Amnesty
appear to show parts of a US-manufactured
Tomahawk cruise missile that carried cluster
munitions. Amnesty said this type of missile
is designed to carry a payload of 166 cluster
bomblets which each explode into over 200
sharp steel fragments. Neither the USA nor
Yemen has yet signed the Convention on
Cluster Munitions, a treaty designed to
comprehensively ban such weapons. The treaty
is due to enter into force in August.

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