Editing Cluster munition (section)

=== Yugoslavia, 1999 ===
{{See also|Niš cluster bombing}}
* Used by the US, the UK and Netherlands.
About 2,000 cluster bombs containing 380,000 sub-munitions were dropped on Yugoslavia during the [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia]], in 1999, of which the [[Royal Air Force]] dropped 531 RBL755 cluster bombs.<ref name="Brady">{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/nato-comes-clean-on-cluster-bombs-402552.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227115228/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/nato-comes-clean-on-cluster-bombs-402552.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 27, 2009 | work=The Independent | title=Nato comes clean on cluster bombs | date=2007-09-16 | access-date=2011-04-16 | location=London | first=Brian | last=Brady}}</ref><ref>[http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=9395 SRBIJI NE PRETE SAMO KASETNE BOMBE] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722172123/http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=9395 |date=2011-07-22 }}, (in Serbian only)</ref> Both the Americans and the British utilised cluster bombs.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Kosovo Conflict and International Law An Analytical Documentation 1974-1999 |date=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=328}}</ref>

On 7 May 1999, between the time of 11:30 and 11:40, a NATO attack was carried out with two containers of cluster bombs and fell in the central part [[Niš]]:
* The Pathology building next to the Medical Center of Nis in the south of the city,
* Next to the building of "Banovina" including the main market, bus station next to the Niš Fortress and "12th February" Health Centre
* Parking of "Niš Express" near river Nišava River.

Reports claimed that 15 civilians were killed, 8 civilians were seriously injured, 11 civilians had sustained minor injuries, 120 housing units were damaged and 47 were destroyed and that 15 cars were damaged.

Overall during the operation, at least 23 Serb civilians were killed by cluster munitions. At least six Serbs, including three children were killed by bomblets after the operation ended, and up to {{convert|23|sqkm}} in six areas remain "cluster contaminated", according to Serbian government, including on Mt. Kopaonik near the slopes of the ski resort. The UK contributed £86,000 to the Serbian Mine Action Centre.<ref name="Brady"/>