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The article implies that tungsten pellets are particularly bad, but they're actually a replacement for cluster bombs that could leave behind unexploded ordnance. Technology can't save civilians from a missile targeted at where they are, but at least these missiles don't also endanger people entering the area in the future.
Cluster bombs are already a war crime because they by default will hit civilians, aren’t they? So of course we developed better ones, so we can be environmentally friendly while we kill civilians!
And to be 100% sure, a second missile is sent to kill the civilians who gathered to rescue the first victims.
I thought they used machine guns on aircraft for that part