Teen plays role in cluster-bomb ban
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
An Afghan teenager who lost both legs to a cluster bomb helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearly 100 nations in signing a treaty banning the weapons.
Afghanistan was initially reluctant to join the pact -- which the United States and Russia have refused to support -- but agreed after lobbying by victims maimed by cluster munitions, including 17-year-old Soraj Ghulam Habib. The teen, who uses a wheelchair, met with his country’s ambassador to Norway, Jawed Ludin, at a signing conference in Oslo.
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