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====Civilian deaths==== * In Vietnam, people are{{When|date=October 2023}} still being killed as a result of cluster bombs and other objects left by the US and Vietnamese military forces. Hundreds of people are{{When|date=October 2023}} killed or injured annually by unexploded ordnance.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060418041034/http://clearpathinternational.org/cpiblog/archives/cat_vietnam.php Clear Path International: Assisting Landmine Survivors, their Families and their Communities]</ref> * Some 270 million cluster submunitions were dropped on Laos in the 1960s and 1970s; approximately one third of these submunitions failed to explode and continue to pose a threat today{{When|date=October 2023}}.<ref>[http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/laos-photos-080508 Laos: the enduring threat from cluster munitions] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822043420/http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/laos-photos-080508 |date=August 22, 2010 }}</ref> * Within the first year after the end of the [[Kosovo War]], more than 100 civilians died from unexploded bombs and mines. During the war, [[NATO]] planes dropped nearly 1,400 cluster bombs in Kosovo. Cluster bombs make up to 40% of mines and unexploded bombs in Kosovo.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/761092.stm | work=BBC News | title=Kosovo mine expert criticises Nato | date=2000-05-23 | access-date=2010-04-30}}</ref> * Israel used cluster bombs in Lebanon in 1978 and in the 1980s. Those weapons used more than two decades ago by Israel continue to affect Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm|title=Israeli Cluster Munitions Hit Civilians in Lebanon (Human Rights Watch, 24-7-2006)|website=www.hrw.org|date=24 July 2006|access-date=15 May 2018|archive-date=13 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113070829/http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> During the 2006 war in Lebanon, Israel fired large numbers of cluster bombs in Lebanon, containing an estimated more than 4 million cluster submunitions. In the first month following the ceasefire, unexploded cluster munitions killed or injured an average of 3β4 people per day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landmineaction.org/resources/Foreseeable%20Harm.pdf|title=UKWGLM_18377.pdf<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=15 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411125949/http://www.landmineaction.org/resources/Foreseeable%20Harm.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-11|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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