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Cluster munitions are imprecise weapons designed to strike a large surface area. They scatter small, highly lethal submunitions, creating a ‘footprint’ within which they indiscriminately kill and injure military targets and civilians.

Yet, unlike during the initial blast, the effects of unexploded submunitions remaining after the strike do seem more discriminate – almost exclusively killing civilians.

Fatal Footprint is the first comprehensive study systematically analyzing the impact of cluster munitions on civilian populations through casualty data. It utilizes information available on casualties of cluster submunitions to track the human impact from the initial cluster munitions strikes, over the short-term emergency phase, to the post-conflict period, which can affect the lives of individuals, families and communities for generations.

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