Leahy-Feinstein Bill to Limit use and Sale of Cluster Bombs

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Clear Path International has announced it supports a bill to be introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would restrict the use of cluster bombs by the United States and its allies. 

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Last year, Clear Path International responded to 88 new accidents on Vietnam’s central coast, many of them due to cluster bombs. Nearly 40 percent, or two out of five, of the victims were children. Thirty-six victims died from their wounds. It has been more than three decades since the end of the Vietnam War.

“The injuries we have seen from cluster bombs are just horrifying,” said Martha Hathaway, Clear Path’s executive director. “This bill is an important step regulating the use of a weapon that claims too many unintended victims.”

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