Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged Ukraine not to employ US-provided cluster bombs in its war against Russia, pointing to the US legacy of cluster munition use in his country as a warning.
“It would be the greatest danger for Ukrainians for many years or up to a hundred years if cluster bombs are used in Russian-occupied areas in the territory of Ukraine,” Hun Sen wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Cluster munitions spread small bomblets over large areas, and many don’t explode on impact, making them a hazard for civilians who could come across them. According to US bombing data, the US dropped 26 million cluster bomblets on Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and about 25% did not explode.
Since 1979, about 20,000 Cambodians have been killed by unexploded American bombs and land mines planted during Cambodia’s civil war.
Hun Sen pointed to Cambodia’s “painful experience” of resulting from the US dropping cluster bombs on the country, something Cambodians are still dealing with today. “It has been more than half a century. There have been no means to destroy them all yet,” he said.
The Cambodian leader called on the US not to supply the cluster bombs and for Ukraine not to use them. “As my pity for the Ukrainian people, I appeal to the US president as the supplier and the Ukrainian president as the recipient not to use cluster bombs in the war because the real victims will be Ukrainians,” he said.
Another one who forgot to include Russia on that petition .
Has Russia already used cluster bombs in Ukraine?
We are credibly told they have.
Bro, If you have to ask.
“Has Russia already used cluster bombs in Ukraine?”
wikipedia says yes =
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_cluster_munitions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Thanks, I read the link and noted that each Russian use listed was against hospitals, schools and residential areas. The idea of Russians opening fire on such targets filled to the brim with innocent civilians is a little strange but it appears cluster munitions were used.
Ukraine has already used them too.
Maybe he was thinking that Ukraine would be doing harm to Ukraine. Or maybe if the US was providing Russia with cluster bombs, he would have said the same thing.
The very idea that the US of aggression is considering sending these cluster ammunition’s to the war zone that is Ukraine ought to provide the perfect excuse for any nation to immediately cancel their alliance with the US.
But GHW Bush proudly declared in his best John Wayne drawl after saturation bombing the defenseless Iraqi Army in the desert that, “We’ve put the VietNam Syndrome behind us.”
An alliance with the USA is always that of the vassal state to the more powerful state. That’s why the USA has no real friends, just interests. My hope is that the rest of the world sees that the jig is up, dumps the petrodollar, and forces those troops in the 800 or so bases around the planet to go home where they belong.
That war must be going really well for the West if they are resorting to this after complaining for months about Russia using them.
Well now, since Cambodia stepped up to express an opinion, everybody better pay attention.
Cambodians better run. Biden will go over there and piss on their shoes.
Didn’t we do that for a brief moment in time?
More than likely, Russia will unleash cluster bomb attacks in Western Ukraine, which might go more to making the whole country (what’s left of it) neutral.
Wall St. Journal wants cluster bombs for Ukraine, which shows how Wall St. is about profits for investors through death and destruction of human beings! Until lobbying is outlawed (HA!!) wars will continue until WWIII happens, which is obviously what the swine in the war industry want. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-is-right-on-cluster-bombs-for-ukraine-russia-war-weapons-military-aid-defense-f22667d3