Kia ora...some light entertainment before the Tramping Club meeting TOMORROW NIGHT. An interesting new global issue that Oxfam New Zealand has taken up. First there was land mines, then there was an international convention to ban them, but countries are now using CLUSTER BOMBS instead...even quicker than laying land mines, and can remain unexploded in the ground for ages after a war.
Tuesday November 6, 6.00pm
Capital E Mackenzie Theatre
Civic Square
Cluster bombs have been responsible for the indiscriminate deaths and injuries of thousands of innocent civilians in the last fifty years. In Vietnam, Kosovo and Lebanon, people are still being killed by cluster bombs, which like landmines, can remain deadly long after the conflict is over.
Don’t miss the chance to find out more from photographer John Rodsted, a cluster bomb expert, who is currently touring New Zealand. John has a compelling presentation of still and video images documenting the lethal impacts of landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Laos and elsewhere.
Oxfam New Zealand has joined the international call for a ban on cluster bombs. Oxfam is supporting the international treaty that will be negotiated over the coming year, at diplomatic conferences in Wellington, Vienna and Dublin.
“I’ve witnessed first-hand the deadly explosiveness of cluster munitions on civilians ... We need to get rid of clusters now.” John Rodsted