Amnesty International denounced on Monday the use of cluster bombs in Ukraine, that caused the death of civilians, including a child, and called for a “war crime” investigation to be opened.
According to the international NGO, a school in Okhtyrka, in the northeast of Ukraine, suffered the impact of these bombs, banned in 2010 by an international convention, which was not signed by Russia or Ukraine.
Three people, including a child, died in the blast, Amnesty said in a statement published on Sunday.
“The attack appears to have been carried out by the Russian army, which was operating nearby and often uses cluster bombs in populated areas,” he said.
This NGO bases its complaint on video images taken by drones and showing the impact of cluster bombs in at least seven places.
It also has 65 photographs and a supplementary videoaccording to a local source.
“Nothing justifies using cluster bombs in populated areas, let alone near a school,” said Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Cluster bombs contain several dozen small bombs that are scattered over a wide perimeter and some of them do not explode at the time of launch, which can lead to them becoming anti-personnel mines.
The NGO Human Rights Watch and the investigative portal Bellingcat also claimed to have evidence of the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas in Ukraine.
Amnesty International denounced on Monday the use of cluster bombs in Ukraine, that caused the death of civilians, including a child, and called for a “war crime” investigation to be opened.
According to the international NGO, a school in Okhtyrka, in the northeast of Ukraine, suffered the impact of these bombs, banned in 2010 by an international convention, which was not signed by Russia or Ukraine.
Three people, including a child, died in the blast, Amnesty said in a statement published on Sunday.
“The attack appears to have been carried out by the Russian army, which was operating nearby and often uses cluster bombs in populated areas,” he said.
This NGO bases its complaint on video images taken by drones and showing the impact of cluster bombs in at least seven places.
It also has 65 photographs and a supplementary videoaccording to a local source.
“Nothing justifies using cluster bombs in populated areas, let alone near a school,” said Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Cluster bombs contain several dozen small bombs that are scattered over a wide perimeter and some of them do not explode at the time of launch, which can lead to them becoming anti-personnel mines.
The NGO Human Rights Watch and the investigative portal Bellingcat also claimed to have evidence of the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas in Ukraine.
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