Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Human Rights Watch published a investigation on drone attacks

United States authorities to blame for working on drone attacks could have to stand trial for war crimes, claims an investigation by Amnesty International, which provides civilian casualties in the strikes in Pakistan. The Amnesty International claim relies upon the study of the 9 from 45 drone attacks recorded around January 2012 and August 2013 in North Waziristan, the location in which the US drone mission is more intense.

The United States authorities understands the Amnesty International statement on drone attacks, reported by the team's chief of the South-Asia program, Polly Truscott. " At the very same time that Amnesty International's statement on Pakistan, Human Rights Watch published a investigation on drone attacks in Yemen.

The information, titled "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda" moreover details civilian casualties in previous drone attacks, two that, based to the information, were put in place "in obvious violation of the rules of war. In another statement, a UN report discovered some 33 drone hits all over the world - not only in Pakistan - that broken global humanitarian rule and generated lots of civilian casualties.

A couple of leading human rights organizations point out they have new reported lots of civilian deaths in U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and also Yemen, contradicting statements by the Obama administration that those accidents are not that common. In Pakistan, Amnesty International researched 9 considered U.S. drone attacks that happened around May 2012 and July 2013 within the region of North Waziristan.

The organizations' data match with an investigation published Friday by a U.N. human rights researcher, who believed that 2,200 people are dead in drone attacks within the last few decade in Pakistan. "The complete idea will come to light if U.S. governments completely reveal the facts, situations and legal policy for every of the drone attacks," Amnesty International thought in their statement, titled "Will I Be Next ? U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan." Caitlin Hayden, a White House spokeswoman, refused to talk about the research.

In many other drone attacks mentioned in the research, the human rights organizations identified that the circumstances were much less clear-cut.