Topic: 2024-Indiscriminate Weapons
Country: Bangladesh
Delegate Name: Sophia Kiser
2024-Indiscriminate Weapons
Bangladesh
Disarmament and International Security (DISEC)
Mattawan High School
Sophia Kiser
Indiscriminate weapons are harmful to everyone involved in an attack. Many countries want to hold dominant military control over other countries by using bombs, anti-personnel landmines, chemical weapons, and so forth. But that isn’t a good enough reason to harm innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the conflict at hand. Mass-destruction weaponry has had a big negative impact on all civilizations around the world for a long time now. Most of these weapons that are the cause of these damages have been banned by the UN but it hasn’t stopped a lot of these countries from maintaining the usage of their equipment.
Bangladesh has suffered bombing and other indiscriminate weapon usage during the liberation war of 1971, which resulted in up to 3 million civilian casualties. As one would expect, the delegation of Bangladesh agrees with the ban on weapons that can’t be targeted at a specified military objective and that don’t have predictable results. Too many innocent lives have been, currently are, and will be lost if the United Nations doesn’t act upon this matter.
After the destruction, civilians who have already suffered through a war that would commonly result in suffrage would be the ones picking everything back up again to how it used to be. Many people go through losses and anything but gains through wars and shouldn’t have to be the ones taking accountability for the attackers’ damage. Therefore, Bangladesh believes in the current ban on indiscriminate violence inflicted by their weapons and that the UN should try harder to enforce them.
Sources:
Independence war of Bangladesh
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-independence-of-bangladesh-in-1971/
Eric A. Strahorn , “The Bangladesh Liberation War” , Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
December, 2021
https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/bangladesh-liberation-war
Indiscriminate Weapons
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/arms-control/
Past actions
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/
