The Carnage of Cluster Munitions

There are few sadder experiences than coming face-to-face with a young person crippled by a landmine or its more insidious cousin, the cluster bomb.

It's the nature of developing societies, where life is grueling enough with two arms and two legs, that these children and young adults have not only lost limbs but in a split, blinding second have had their entire futures blown apart. And for what? Innocently playing games, or gathering firewood in a place where long-departed soldiers or some passing bomber had years ago deposited a deadly legacy.