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Irish Times
May 14, 2017
A staggering 270 million bombs were dropped on Laos, during what became known as the secret war, because Americans were unaware of what was going on. The 80 ... Forty-four years after the last mission, the bombs the US dropped are still causing deaths and casualties. .... 24 Blu-63 cluster bomblets.
UN Dispatch
June 23, 2016
While the amendment was narrowly defeated, 204-216, the near miss indicates that the global campaign to ban the use or sale of cluster bombs has ... BLU-63 submunitions that broke apart on impact after being dispersed by CBU-58 cluster bombs in the Hayal Sayeed neighborhood of Sanaa on JanuaryÃâà...
Amnesty International UK
May 22, 2016
Amnesty International has written to prime minister David Cameron and other senior ministers demanding a full Government inquiry into new evidence that Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces have used UK-manufactured cluster bombs - which may have killed and injured civilians, including children - in theÃâà...
Sputnik International
May 9, 2016
Earlier identified by the Human Rights Watch, the CBU-58 cluster bombs and BLU-63 submunitions were reportedly developed by the United States during the Vietnam War and are designed to attack personnel and lightly protected materiel. As for the submunitions, they also contain 5-gram titanium pelletsÃâà...
VICE News
March 11, 2016
When coalition aircraft dropped cluster bombs on Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, it elicited an outcry. On January 6, residents of the Maaen district of Sanaa reported "aerial attacks consistent with cluster bomb use," Human Rights Watch reported, providing a photograph of the golf ball-sized BLU-63 bombletsÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
February 13, 2016
This Technical Briefing Note reviews the use of cluster munitions in the conflict in Yemen since a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of nations began military operations against Ansar Allah (Houthi forces) on March 26, 2015. This is not the first time cluster munitions have been used in Yemen. Previously, SaudiÃâà...
Cluster Munition Coalition
January 9, 2016
Cluster munitions used in the attacks have been identified as US-made BLU-63 antipersonnel/anti-materiel submunitions and components of a CBU-58 cluster bomb. Each air-dropped CBU-58 cluster bomb contains 650 submunitions. Cluster munitions of this type were exported by the United States toÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
January 7, 2016
Human Rights Watch identified the munitions as from US-made BLU-63 antipersonnel/anti-materiel submunitions and components of a CBU-58 cluster bomb. Markings on the bomb remnants indicate that it was manufactured in 1978 at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant in the state of Tennessee in theÃâà...
BBC News
May 16, 2011
He was killed by a BLU 63, the size and shape of a tennis ball, dark green in colour and the most widely used cluster munitions in the conflict. A cluster bomb contains hundreds of these bomblets, which it releases as it falls. The BLU 63 bomblets have little fins or "flutes" that make them spin as they drop.
TIME
February 5, 2007
On a wind-swept hilltop outside the village of Halloussiyeh, 10 miles northeast of Tyre, a team from Bactec, a British ordnance clearing company, inches its way along a terrace of small olive trees, hunting for BLU-63 cluster munitions. Most of the tennis-ball sized metal bomblets are easily visible, althoughÃâà...