Oxford University's shameful links to cluster bombs

 Cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapons that eject smaller munitions: a cluster of bomblets. The most common types are designed to kill enemy personnel and destroy vehicles, but because cluster bombs release many small bomblets over a wide area they pose a large risk to civilians both during attacks and afterwards. During attacks the weapons are prone to indiscriminate effects, especially in populated areas. Unexploded bomblets kill and maim civilians long after a conflict has ended, and are costly to locate and remove.

But it doesn’t end there, Oxford University has invested more than £2million in defence companies including Northrop Grumman and European Aeronautics Defence and Space through Oxford University Endowment Management (OUEM).

Profiting from the death and injury of others is, of course, nothing new to this institution that named one of it’s buildings after the arms trader who donated money to them; The Said Business School is the first building people see if they travel to Oxford by train and is certainly a monument to how unethical it is. Then there was the endowment of £7.5 million the university received after their involvement with the highly controversial Lavosa City development in India, which left indigenous people homeless and penniless after they were pushed off their land.

But these new revelations show just how little decency Oxford University has, especially when it comes to financial gain.