The Sound of Bomblets

Series produced by Jessica Dheere

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Interviews with cluster bomb victims in southern Lebanon

Israel dropped 4.5 million cluster munitions on Lebanon last summer. A third of them didn't explode, effectively littering the south with live bombs, most of them smaller than a soda can, hence the ridiculous moniker "bomblet." Since August 14, the day of the ceasefire, more than 200 people have been injured or killed as they inadvertently detonated them, harvesting tobacco, picking olives, collecting scrap metal, cleaning the house, clearing cluster bombs.

Jessica Dheere, a writer, and Gabriela Bulisova, a photographer, set out to talk to some of the victims, whose experiences are often represented only by the appearance of their names on hospital admission lists. In a series of field interviews conducted in living rooms and olive groves and at bomb sites and funerals, grandmothers, construction workers, and teenage boys recount the effects of these tiny, deadly devices on their bodies, families, finances, and land.

In English, with some translated and untranslated Arabic. Hide full description

Israel dropped 4.5 million cluster munitions on Lebanon last summer. A third of them didn't explode, effectively littering the south with live bombs, most of them smaller than a soda can, hence the ridiculous moniker "bomblet." Since August 14, the day of the ceasefire, more than 200 people have been injured or killed as they inadvertently detonated them, harvesting tobacco, picking olives, collecting scrap metal, cleaning the house, clearing cluster bombs. Jessica Dheere, a writer, and Gabriela Bulisova, a photographer, set out to talk to some of the victims, whose experiences are often represented only by the appearance of their names on hospital admission lists. In a series of field interviews conducted in living rooms and olive groves and at bomb sites and funerals,... Show full description


2 Pieces

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12-year-old Hassan talks about his cluster bomb injuries from his hospital bed

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 07:30
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Introduction to a multisegment series on cluster bomb victims in Lebanon

  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 10:00