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BRITANNIQUE préparez pour ferrailler des bombes de faisceau de tueur

Mercredi 28 mai 2008

clusterbomb.jpgPar Richard Norton-Taylor | Le gouvernement prépare pour ferrailler l'arsenal entier de la Grande-Bretagne des bombes de faisceau face à une clameur croissante contre les armes qui ont tué et des centaines mutilées de civils innocents.

Les fonctionnaires préparent le terrain pour l'inattendu et l'étape radicale aux entretiens à Dublin sur un traité international a visé une interdiction mondiale des bombes.

les sources Bien-placées ont fait clairement hier cela en dépit de l'opposition à partir des militaires, le gouvernement est préparées pour se débarasser des munitions en grappe dans l'armurerie de la Grande-Bretagne : l'arme lsraeli-conçue de l'artillerie M85 utilisée pendant l'invasion 2003 de l'Irak et dans les attaques sur le Liban il y a deux ans ; et le M73, une partie d'un système d'armes pour des hélicoptères d'Apache.

« Le premier ministre est infiniment derrière ce processus et veut que nous signent [le traité] », une source aînée du Foreign Office dite hier.

L'Irlande, qui préside les entretiens, veut qu'un texte de traité soit adopté ce soir. « Si nous signons jusqu'au traité que nous perdrons le M85 et le ″ M73, la source dite. Tandis que le gouvernement semble heureux pour que les forces britanniques se débarassent de leurs armes M85 immédiatement, il veut une « élimination progressive de la période » pour son M73s.

L'accord, prévu pour être confirmé aujourd'hui, finit un conflit long de Whitehall qui a piqué le ministère de la défense contre la FO et du département pour le développement international. Le mod indique que le nombre de bombes de faisceau dans l'armurerie est « du point de vue fonctionnement sensible » mais concède que le désarmement de elles coûtera des dizaines de millions de livres.

Des participants aux entretiens étaient encore embrouillés la nuit passée en question souvent débattue de si les troupes des pays qui signent jusqu'à l'interdiction pourraient aller sur des opérations avec ceux, notamment les USA, qui pas. Les empêcher de faire ainsi pourraient mener aux infractions dans d'autres engagements de traité, notamment impliquant l'OTAN, et auraient des implications pratiques sérieuses, les fonctionnaires britanniques déclarent. Le gouvernement veut également permettre aux USA de stocker des armes de faisceau aux bases américaines au R-U.

De la pression serait appliquée sur les USA de ne pas utiliser ses armes de faisceau dans des opérations communes avec les pays qui les avaient interdits, fonctionnaires suggèrent.

Les armes de faisceau sont fortement controversées parce qu'elles dispersent de petites « bombettes » au-dessus d'un secteur large. Many of them do not explode on impact and are activated later by civilians. They caused more than 200 civilian casualties in the year after the Lebanon ceasefire, and more civilian casualties in Iraq in 2003 and Kosovo in 1999 than any other weapon system.

The M85 was fired by British troops around Basra during the invasion of Iraq. According to the MoD, they made a “direct contribution to saving the lives of UK service personnel”.

The M73 rocket, part of the Apache’s weapons system, is fired from pods on the attack helicopters and can also be fitted to Harrier jets. In its defence of their use, MoD officials have argued that they were “direct fire” weapons - in other words a pilot firing them can see the target - and that a single weapon had fewer than 10 “bomblets”.

However, that figure refers to the number in just one rocket pod, and an Apache can carry a total of 684 in its cluster weapons, campaigners say.

Human rights groups campaigning for a ban on all cluster bombs said yesterday the planned treaty was being threatened by the refusal of the US to remove stocks from its airforce bases on UK territory.

Simon Conway, a former soldier and the director of Landmine Action UK, said: “Gordon Brown has pushed the Dublin negotiations in the right direction. Now is the time for him to have the courage of his convictions and tell the US that it cannot store these outdated and indiscriminate weapons on UK soil.”

Article 1 of the planned treaty, due to be signed in Oslo in early December, prohibits assistance with the use, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. The US, Israel, Russia, China, India and Pakistan are not taking part in the talks.

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