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June 7, 2010

Amnesty: US Missiles Used in Yemen Air Strike
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Amnesty International has released evidence showing that the United
States was directly involved in an air strike in Yemen in December that
killed fifty-five people, including fourteen women and twenty-one
children. Photographs released by Amnesty appear to show parts of a
US-manufactured Tomahawk cruise missile that carried cluster munitions.
Amnesty said this type of missile is designed to carry a payload of 166
cluster bomblets which each explode into over 200 sharp steel fragments.
Neither the USA nor Yemen has yet signed the Convention on Cluster
Munitions, a treaty designed to comprehensively ban such weapons. The
treaty is due to enter into force in August.



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