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1943
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USSR
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Soviet forces use air-dropped cluster munitions against German armor. German forces use SD-1 and SD-2 butterfly bombs against artillery positions on the Kursk salient.
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1943
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United Kingdom
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German aircraft drop over 1,000 SD-2 butterfly bombs on the port of Grimsby.
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1960s-1970s
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Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
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US forces make extensive use of cluster munitions in bombing campaigns. The ICRC estimates that in Laos alone, 9 to 27 million unexploded submunitions remain. An estimate based on US military databases states that 9,500 sorties in Cambodia delivered up to 87,000 air-dropped cluster munitions.
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1973
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Syria
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Israel uses air-dropped cluster munitions against NSAG training camps near Damascus.
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1975-1988
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Western Sahara
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Moroccan forces use cluster munitions against NSAG.
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1978
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Lebanon
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Israel uses cluster munitions in southern Lebanon.
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1979-1989
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Afghanistan
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Soviet forces use air-dropped and rocket-delivered cluster munitions. NSAG also use rocket-delivered cluster munitions on a smaller scale.
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1982
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Lebanon
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Israel uses cluster munitions against Syrian forces and NSAG in Lebanon.
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1982
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Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
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UK aircraft drop cluster munitions on Argentinean infantry positions near Port Stanley, Port Howard, and Goose Green.
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1986
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Chad
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French air forces air-drop cluster munitions on a Libyan airfield at Wadi Doum.
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1991
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Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
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The US and its allies (France, Saudi Arabia, UK) drop 61,000 cluster bombs, containing some 20 million submunitions. The number of cluster munitions delivered by surface-launched artillery and rocket systems is not known, but an estimated 30 million or more DPICM submunitions were used in the conflict.
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1992-1995
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Forces of Yugoslavia and NSAG use available stocks of cluster munitions during civil war.
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1992-1997
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Tajikistan
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Use by unknown forces in civil war.
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1994-1996
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Chechnya
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Russian forces use cluster munitions against NSAG.
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1995
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Croatia
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On May 2-3, 1995, an NSAG uses Orkan M-87 multiple rocket launchers to attack civilians in Zagreb. Additionally, the Croatian government claimed that Serb forces used BL-755 bombs.
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1996-1999
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Sudan
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Sudanese government forces use air-dropped cluster munitions in southern Sudan.
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1997
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Sierra Leone
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Nigerian ECOMOG peacekeepers use BLG-66 Belouga bombs on the town of Kenema.
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1998
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Ethiopia / Eritrea
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Ethiopia attacks Asmara airport and targets in Gash-Barka province (the latter with BL-755 cluster bombs). Eritrea attacks Mekele airport.
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1998-1999
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Albania
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Yugoslav forces conduct cross-border rocket attacks. NATO carries out six aerial cluster munition strikes.
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1999
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Yugoslavia (including Kosovo)
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The US, UK, and Netherlands drop 1,765 cluster bombs, containing 295,000 bomblets.
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2001- 2002
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Afghanistan
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The US drops 1,228 cluster bombs containing 248,056 bomblets.
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2003
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Iraq
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The US and UK use nearly 13,000 cluster munitions, containing an estimated 1.8 to 2 million submunitions in the three weeks of major combat.
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2006
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Lebanon
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Israeli forces use surface-launched and air-dropped cluster munitions against Hezbollah. The UN estimates that Israel used up to 4 million submunitions.
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2006
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Israel
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Hezbollah fires over 100 Chinese-produced Type-81 122mm cluster munition rockets into northern Israel.
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