Word: anti-personnel
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Israel's use of phosphorous bombs, other incendiary weaponry, and anti-personnel cluster bombs in indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas of Beirut and other Lebanese cities violated numerous provisions of international conventions relative to the protection of civilians in times of war. Extensive looting and vandalism of residences and public institutions by Israeli troops also violated these general conventions. The theft of the 25,000 volume library of the Palestine Research Center violated a specific convention relative to the protection of cultural property in times of war of which both Israel and Lebanon are signatories. The destruction of Palestinian camps...
...planes were loaded with "anti-personnel devices," the conventional equivalent of neutron bombs, designed to slice people with indiscrimination. Our planes carried napalm, burning jelly that clung to humans. Our planes bombed dikes, and ruined farms, carpeted the country with craters, made an entire race cringe at the sound of a jet engine. One unanswered question, by the way, is how much of the barbarity of the North Vietnamese communist results from the shambles in which we left their land. We know many of our veterans came home from the war irremediable fucked up, still whimpering at fire fights acted...
VERY FEW CONTEMPORARY artists share the classical bias that warfare is noble. Slaughterhouse Five. Why Are We In Vietnam?, Apocalypse Now--the realization is dawning that saturation bombing means blowing up every village in a province designated "strategic" by a Pentagon flunkie, and that anti-personnel devices are grenades filled with steel pins designed expressly to rip humans apart. No Thermopylae for us not even any Chateaux Thierry. We read about My Lai when we were nine or ten, and it will take more than the Iranian crisis to make us forget that the ditches in that small Asian town...
...against Indochina ranks as one of this century's most horrible atrocities. More explosive power was rained upon the Vietnamese countryside than was used in all of World War II; anti-personnel weapons were designed solely for their ability to maim; carcinogenic, fetus-deforming chemical defoliants blanketed half of Vietnam's arable land...
...What were anti-personnel bombs...