〔イエメン戦争〕◆ サウジ主導連合軍、クラスター爆弾（世界的に禁止されているが、米軍、サウジ軍は配備）で攻撃 / 米軍がサウジ、アラブ首長国連邦に供与 人権団体が非難 / イエメン北部 サアダ州で ★ 安倍政権の「わが軍」も、クラスター爆弾の投下を求められることになるかもしれない！ 「テロとの戦い」を名目に！

　★　クラスター（集束）爆弾は、周辺一帯に子爆弾をまき散らすもので、民間人が巻き込まれ、死傷する恐れが高い。

　こんな非人道兵器が、イエメン戦争で、使われているようだ。

　イエメン、イラク、シリア……中東はスンニ・シーア間の宗教対立を軸にした「大戦」に発展している。

　安倍政権は「中国」を念頭に、軍事主義に突っ走っているようだが、「集団的自衛権」でもって、中東の戦線に巻き込まれる恐れが強い。

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　〔★は大沼〕◎　ニューヨーク・タイムズ　：　
　（３日付け）⇒　http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/world/middleeast/saudi-led-group-said-to-use-cluster-bombs-in-yemen.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine　

　・　The Saudi-led military coalition fighting a rebel group in Yemen has in the past few weeks used cluster munitions supplied by the United States, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sunday.

　The report said video, photographs and other evidence showed that the coalition had used cluster bombs near villages in Yemen’s northern Saada Province. The group, which said it had found evidence that the weapons had been deployed on at least two separate occasions, has not been able to establish whether any casualties had resulted from their use, according to the report.

　Cluster munitions, which are banned by much of the world, though not by the United States, Saudi Arabia or Yemen, are considered imprecise weapons that spread ordnance over a wide area and pose a long-term danger to civilians because of the unexploded bomblets they leave behind.

　・　In its report, Human Rights Watch, based in New York, said photographs taken at the site of an airstrike on April 17 showed remnants of a type of cluster munitions that has been supplied in recent years by the United States to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates is part of the military coalition.