{"id":178314,"date":"2021-05-25T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/may\/25\/explosive-weapons-used-in-cities-kill-civilians-91-of-time-finds-study"},"modified":"2021-05-25T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:21","slug":"explosive-weapons-used-in-cities-kill-civilians-91-of-time-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/25\/explosive-weapons-used-in-cities-kill-civilians-91-of-time-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive weapons used in cities kill civilians 91% of time, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights campaigners urge world leaders to agree to restrict use of bombs in built-up areas<\/p><p>Civilians accounted for 91% of those killed or injured by explosive weapons in populated areas worldwide over the last 10 years \u2013 a total of 238,892 people \u2013 according to a study of thousands of incidents.<\/p><p>The stark statistic \u2013 encompassing both state and terrorist violence \u2013 has prompted the report\u2019s authors to call on governments to agree to an international ban on the use of explosive weapons in built-up areas, which is now in draft form.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/may\/25\/explosive-weapons-used-in-cities-kill-civilians-91-of-time-finds-study\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/may\/25\/explosive-weapons-used-in-cities-kill-civilians-91-of-time-finds-study\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights campaigners urge world leaders to agree to restrict use of bombs in built-up areasCivilians accounted for 91% of those killed or injured by explosive weapons in populated areas worldwide over the last 10 years \u2013 a total of 238,892 people \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,6,82,196,1314,26012,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178315,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178314\/revisions\/178315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}