Ban Advocates Blog

Sladan Vuckovic, Ban Advocate, Serbia

Caricature from Saša Dimitrijević, a professional caricaturist, living and working in Niš, Serbia

While trying to forget about my own accident and thinking of other victims, it came to me that I could start memorizing and recording different views on cluster munitions.

I have a more or less healthy life and I am socializing with quite a lot of different people. I am sorry that, from the very beginning, I did not try to remember all the stories and conversations, and that I did not make them available to the public. I myself, as a professional and a person trained to dispose of cluster munitions, as a victim of submunitions, and as a family man, have encountered very different views on cluster munitions.

Namely, I noticed that people from different environments do not know enough about cluster munitions, which is understandable, but they all, literally all, have the same view on the evil called cluster munitions. I was surprised that some of the people I talked to did not even want to hear any discussion about cluster munitions. On the contrary, those who listened to my personal and professional story were amazed by the fact that I had lost both of my arms, a part of my leg , and that I was half-deaf but still alive.