The unexploded bomblets are a danger to residents, especially children who might pick them up, Amnesty says.
Early on the estimate was there were hundreds of thousands of these bomblets.
Many Lebanese villages and fields are still littered with cluster bomblets, making the clean-up operation all the more dangerous.
If the bomblets fail to find something suitable to destroy, they automatically self-destruct.
About 10% of bomblets in modern cluster weapons usually fail, weapons experts say.
Anthony, explain for us if you could what these bomblets look like.
Bomblets are individual units of cluster bombs and are made of metal.
The Danish Demining Group says that it still finds Chilean-made PM-1 bomblets throughout South Sudan, particularly in the areas between Juba, the capital, and the Ugandan border.
"Cluster munitions contain dozens or sometimes hundreds of explosive bomblets, so when they're used, they scatter over a very large area, often the size of several football fields, " Cheeseman said.
International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday urged coalition forces to change the color of the rations so that children would not confuse them with bomblets that might explode when opened.
At the time, weapons experts said as many as one in 10 bomblets failed to explode on impact and posed a considerable danger, particularly to children who were attracted to them because of their bright coloring.
Shortly after the beginning of the U.S. bombing of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan in 2001, possible confusion between bomblets and food rations prompted the U.S. military to broadcast warnings to inform people how to differentiate between bomblets and airdropped food parcels, both of which were yellow.
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