Rights Watch urges South Sudan, Uganda to investigate cluster bomb use<http://catholicradionetwork.org/?q=node/13345> CRN Saturday, February 15, 2014 - 09:29 *Human Rights Watch urged South Sudan and Uganda governments to investigate new evidence of using banned cluster bombs in the country's conflict and make results public.*
In a statement issued on Friday, Human Rights Watch arms division director Steve Goose said, "The governments involved should quickly find out who is behind this and make clear they would be held responsible." The organization called on the governments to enhance confidence in the independence and impartiality of the investigation by involving international experts. The Human Rights Watch also called for cooperation with relevant international organizations including UNMAS and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He warned that the horrific weapons kill and keep on killing anybody long afterwards. The Rights Watch said United Nations or UN experts found remnants of the weapons, including intact unexploded sub munitions including eight RBK-250-275 cluster bombs and an unknown quantity of AO-1SCh bomblets in the week of February 7, 2014, near Bor town. The statement said South Sudan government forces used Mi-17 Hip helicopter which was capable of dropping cluster munitions. Government denied using cluster bombs saying, it "is not a user or producer of cluster munitions." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14orBqoMMh8Xn_Dj9hQZ9%2BeckQQkieGGoq28%2BAW%3DOrcC17A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
