The Sudanese air force is using deadly cluster bombs in South Kordofan’s civil war although the Government denies having such weapons in its arsenal.
The alert comes from Human Rights Watch who asked Sudan to investigate how a Soviet-made unemployed cluster bomb ended up near Ongolo, in South Kordofan.Arms Division director at Human Rights Watch Steve Goose asks: Sudan claims it doesn’t possess cluster bombs, so why have cluster munitions been found on its territory?
He added that cluster bombs cause unnecessary and unjustified risk and harm to civilians and should not be used by armed forces, anywhere, any time.
Sudan participated in the cluster munition treaty negotiations and joined the consensus adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the conclusion of the negotiations in Dublin in May 2008.