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Cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines are not WMDs

Cluster munitions and landmines are not WMDs: they are not aimed at destroying targets (such as a bunker or the population of a whole city) but to injure as many enemy people as possible, in order to increase the medical support needed to treat the wounded.

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