Human Rights Watch: There is Evidence of Use of Cluster Bombs in Libya.

New York, 15 March 2015(Lana) There are three pieces of evidence supporting the use of cluster bombs in Libya over the last three months, Human Rights Watch said. In a statement on Sunday the organisation said 'the evidence is credible and was found in at least two locations in Libya since December 2014.' It said it based its findings on telephone contacts with eyewitnesses and photographic evidence it collected which proved that cluster bombs of different types, have been used in the area of Bin Jawad in February 2015, and in Sirte in March this year. According to the organisation, it was not possible to determine the perpetrators of those attack on the basis of the available evidence. 'The new evidence of the use of cluster bombs in Libya raised widespread concern, and the Libyan authorities have a duty to investigate those instances and ensure that its forces did not use those weapons, the Head of weapons programme at WHO Steve Goss said. The organisation demanded that Libya join the Cluster Bomb Convention of 2008, which prohibits the use of cluster bombs under any circumstances. 113 country have signed up to the treaty which prohibits production, stockpiling and use of cluster bombs, but the weapons are still used only in Libya, Syria and Thailand, after they have become a mandatory part of the international law of 2010. =Lana=