British-made cluster bombs are turning up in Yemen. Will Cameron tell us why?

Edit The Guardian 23 May 2016
Bizarrely ... Our evidence casts these claims into serious doubt ... Or ... Or ... To be precise, it’s a BL755 device made and exported by a Bedfordshire-based firm called Hunting Engineering Ltd prior to the ban on such devices coming in to force ... The BL755 was designed to be dropped from Tornado fighter jets, scores of which the UK has sold to Saudi Arabia ... The BL755, a barbaric bit of British kit has turned up in the killing fields of Yemen ... ....

Technical Briefing Note: Cluster Munition Use in Yemen (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Feb 2016
(Source. HRW - Human Rights Watch) ... This is not the first time cluster munitions have been used in Yemen ... Amran, Hajja, Hodaida, Saada, and Sanaa ... Methodology ... Photographs circulated on social media in January 2016 showed the remnants of UK-manufactured BL755 cluster bombs and their submunitions, reportedly situated in Yemen, but Human Rights Watch has not been able to verify the photographs or attain additional evidence to confirm use....
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