Inhumane Weapons

EDM number 1021 in 1990-91, proposed by Paul Flynn on 24/06/1991.

That this House notes that Michael Klare, an American authority on fuel air explosive, said that this weapon was designed "to produce nuclear-like levels of destruction without arousing popular revulsion"; believes that the widespread use of the annihilation weapons of FAEs, cluster bombs and daisy cutters in the Gulf war was an escalation into warfare of a new barbarism of mass slaughter; recalls that only 7.4 per cent. of the bombs dropped by the coalition were precision ones and the so-called "clean war" was fought with very dirty weapons that should be included in the Inhumane Weapons protocol of 1981 in order to control their future manufacture, sale and deployment.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.