In a terrible account of the horrific legacy of cluster munitions recorded during the reporting period, a 10-year-old girl picked up a submunition, known in Lao PDR as a “bombie,” while walking to school in the northern province of Xieng Khoang. Cluster munition remnants caused 93 casualties in eight countries and two other areas. Overall, in 2017, 196 people were recorded killed and injured directly due to cluster munition attacks in two countries, Syria and Yemen. The real number of new casualties is likely much higher. However, as in previous years, it is certain that this number does not capture all actual casualties. Of the casualties recorded, 71 people were killed, and 218 were injured. These casualties occurred both at the time of attack and later from explosive remnants, principally unexploded submunitions and bomblets. The Monitor identified 289 new cluster munition casualties in eight countries and two other areas that occurred during calendar year 2017. During that nine-year period, new cluster munition casualties were also recorded in another 16 countries and three other areas. The is due in part to additional casualties from the past that have been identified through data collection efforts in the period since the adoption of the convention.ĭeplorably, some 3,979 new casualties were recorded from 2009 through 2017, the majority, 77%, from new use in Syria (3,076). The present total of 21,614 cluster munition casualties actually recorded is far greater than the 13,306 recorded casualties identified before the Convention on Cluster Munitions opened for signature in 2008. Various country estimates place the total number of cluster munition casualties globally over time as roughly between 56,000 and 86,000. It covers casualties from cluster munition remnants and from attacks in 33 countries and three other areas ( see table below). The Monitor provides the most comprehensive statistics available on cluster munition casualties recorded annually over time, in individual countries, and aggregated globally. ![]() Infographs, Factsheets, Briefing PapersĬluster Munition Monitor 2018 Casualties Munition Casualties.
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