Maybe they are sending one of their 'we can do what the fuck we like' messages or maybe they saw an opportunity. /speculation
Again a highly misleading report, as one would expect from the source . Cluster munitions , just like white phosphorous, aren't banned and arent illegal . And they admit they never went to a single site to examine the claims. Just spoke to opposition activists down the phone.
And his sources are?
Anyone would think you're the boots on the ground. You haven't got a scooby what's going on, yet are quick to diss anyone who posts a media link to that of what doesn't fit your agenda.
And this ain't a pop at rockets fired into Israel either. It's a general pop
More information here.
Israel seems to be the only country that's targeted the regime and forces aligned with it
Hizbollah leader Samir Kantar killed in 'Israeli air strike'
The guy posted a link that claimed , falsely, that cluster munitions are a banned weapon. They aren't, it's bollocks.
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits the use, transfer and stockpile of cluster bombs, a type ofexplosive weapon which scatters submunitions ("bomblets") over an area. The convention was adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin,[6] and was opened for signature on 3 December 2008 in Oslo. It entered into force on 1 August 2010, six months after it was ratified by 30 states.[2] As of October 2015, 108 states have signed the treaty and 98 have ratified it or acceded to it.[3]
The US and the other countries in Saudi Arabia's military coalition are not signatories of the 2008 treaty either. The US does however bar the sale of the weapons to countries that use them in civilian areas.
Convention on Cluster Munitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You are right about white phosphorous but however I do not recall posting about this substance so perhaps you could draw my attention the the relevant post.
White phosphorus munitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Usually you ignore posts that I make that you are not comfortable with or have no ready answer to. Here I refer to posts #4607 and #4547 as being the most recent examples that come to mind. Now maybe Syria and Russia haven't ratified the convention on cluster munitions but in any event it would seem to be something that countries often feel safe to ignore as Saudi Arabia has been using them in Yemen.
Oh and before you say that Human Rights Watch has a Western-centric agenda or somesuch it was them who reported on the uses of of cluster munitions in both Syria and Yemen. Incidentally it says in that BBC article that Saudi is not a signatory to the convention on cluster munitions and neither is the US:
How the US expects to enforce the bar is laughable or would be except for the end results.
It would also appear that neither Russia nor Syria are signatories either, so that's ok then.
In reality the convention appears to be a bit of a paper tiger as two of the largest arms manufacturers on the planet, the US and Russia are not signatories and as usual it's a case of 'I am right because I'm holding a much larger stick than you'. This does not however imo make the spirit and the intention of the convention wrong. It just means that the usual suspects are indeed, cunts.
Wait. CR is defending the use of cluster bombs now?
Or is it only if his team uses them?
Is that really the best you can manage? You sad fuck.Youve missed out the bit were the evidence is " opposition activists " , as in fucking rebels, phoning this info into HRW in Turkey.
Way to fucking go . Sunshine .
President of the Italian Senate opens the Italian consulate in Erbil 22/12/2015
Random press release of the day:
Erbil being, of course, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. Some re-alignment here?
So yeah, it is a general pop and a totally hypocritical one. You're fucked off about this stuff being challenged.
Good. I hope you get even more fucked off .
Fake as shit. That's a MiG-21MF. The VVS isn't operating those in Syria.
Is that really the best you can manage? You sad fuck.
Fucked off? I couldn't give a monkey's chuff me auld fruit.
Keep on posting fake tube vids for the lolz though