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/ 23 February 2007

‘Crisis in waiting’: Cluster-bomb victims call for ban

As Branislav Kapetanovic brushed aside some grass to get a better view, his arms and legs were ripped off by a cluster bomb that had been dropped by Nato. His eardrums burst. On the way to hospital his heart stopped, but he survived. Four years and more than 20 surgical operations later, he recounted the fateful day to delegates at a large NGO and civil-society forum in Oslo on Wednesday.