Illegal drone attacks targeted by activists

[The Northerner]

A Pakistani human rights organisation filed petitions in Peshawar’s High Court yesterday, on behalf of the victims of Washington’s illegal drone strikes in the country’s tribal regions.

The Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR) filed the petitions on behalf of more than 50 tribesmen killed in a single US drone attack in March 2011.

FFR legal director Shahzad Akbar said that the petitioners were challenging both the complicity and inaction of the federal government.

Mr Akbar said that the government had failed to discharge its constitutional duty to protect its citizens by condoning or turning a blind eye to the US drone attacks, which he estimated to have killed 2,800 civilians over the past seven years.

Clive Stafford Smith of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve said: “If my child were killed by a Predator drone in the English countryside, I would expect there to be very serious and immediate consequences."

Source: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/118855


I couldn't agree more with their actions and I hope they're successful but it'll be an uphill battle.

If Mr. Clive Stafford Smith's words were modified to “If my child were killed by a Predator drone in the US countryside, I would expect there to be very serious and immediate consequences" would there be any mass outrage?

Would most people dismiss a drone slaughter of civilians in the US so long as those suspected "terrorists" were killed as well, without trial?

[GeorgeGist]

1. Most people, No.

But a large minority would side with the bully.

[RC]

2. Why is it OK for us, US to do this to them , but no one had better do this to us, US?

Would most people dismiss a drone slaughter of civilians in the US so long as those suspected "terrorists" were killed as well, without trial?