human rights watch published photos of cluster munitions it had been found in Misratah pro-Government forces in Libya are been accused by a human rights group campaign said the use of cluster bombs, which are prohibited by more than 100 countries.Human rights Watch said, one of the photographers had seen three mortar-launched missiles explode in a residential area of Misurata.
A spokesman for the Libyan Government denied the claim.
Government forces have their siege of Misurata, the only West Libyan city in rebel hands intensified.
The BBC's Orla Guerin reports from within the city of battle scarred that residents fear a massacre without more action by NATO air forces to break the siege.
A meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Berlin was without the efforts of non-participating States of warplanes despite an appeal by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen contribute ended.
The United States and France the UK said in a joint statement are that the threat of Libyan civilians will not disappear, while Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi in power remains.
Russia suggested that you has been exceeded NATO the UN mandate for the protection of civilians.
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Orla Guerin BBC News, MisratahThe hospital is struggling to keep pace with the attacks. Emergency ward is a tent in the parking lot. Patients are a and crashed on to make new. Lights go without warning, crashing surgeons in darkness on and turn off.
Doctors say it behind the power supplies, beds and personnel for the treatment of the continuous flow of running are violated.
"When someone comes now, they must be treated on the ground,", said Dr. Khalid Abufalgha, Member of Misurata crisis Committee.
With so many urgent cases, it can help not patients with chronic diseases.
And there is growing concern about the security of the port. Medical care come ashore here but the heavy shelling has stopped several ships, and raised fears that Col Gaddafi will cut this last link with the outside world.
Share photos of cluster munitions, New York said human rights watch of Misratah's el-Shawahda neighborhood on Thursday night three shells exploded had.First discovered by a New York Times reporter, and reviewed by HRW researchers, the object photographed is as projectile, which opens a MAT-120 120 mm mortar in the air and 21 versions of sub-munitions over a wide area.
"The explosion on contact with an object, each sub rockets disintegrates into fragments of the high speed attack people and free one snail of molten of metal armoured vehicles, entering" HRW noted.
HRW, said the projectile, which, that have investigated it, was made in Spain.
Steve Goose, HRW's arms Division Director, said it was "appalling" that Libya of such weapons, especially in a residential area has been used.
"it a big risk for civilians, both during the attacks because of their indiscriminate nature and then because of the scattered the still dangerous unexploded dud, represent", he added.
HRW, said that it could not determine whether all civilians by the cluster bombs had been injured "appear, landed about 300 meters [m] from Misratah hospital".
Denial-of-TripoliAdopted the International Convention on cluster munitions in Dublin in 2008 prohibits the 108 signatories with cluster weapons because of the threat which they pose to civilians.
Libya is one of the States that have not signed agreements with countries such as the United States, Israel, Russia and China.
Libyan Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim denied that used cluster bombs in Misurata.
"I challenge them to prove it," he told reporters in the capital Tripoli.
Inspections of humanitarian groups, he said: "these bombs to use, would remain the evidence for days and weeks, and we know the international community is soon masses in our country." "So we this is not possible, not we can do anything which would weigh on us, even if we criminals."
A signatory of the Convention of cluster munitions, on the origin of the bombs was no immediate comment by Spain, it.
The fragments in Misratah found adoption of the Convention were made apparently in a year.
Rebels in Misratah operation have made attacks for two months and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has stressed that NATO act quickly to prevent that needs a "massacre" in the city.
He said NATO had the need to avoid civilian casualties limited been but had prevented the city probably due, is taken by Col Gaddafi's troops.
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