U.N. official says,Drones killing innocent Pakistanis

Diposting oleh Unknown on Jumat, 15 Maret 2013

U.N. official says,Drones killing innocent Pakistanis



in an age which is too advanced to make all the scientists and the rest of the world are competing in the invention of new technology, with a high level of sophistication. Many people make new technologies to meet the needs of modern-paced and continuously growing. The new technology brings many benefits, but unfortunately sometimes these technologies also impact the bad examples that exist in this country pakistan.Farmers are on their way to tend their crops when a missile slams into their midst, thrusting shrapnel in all directions.

A CIA drone, flying so high that the farmers can't see it, has killed most of them. None of them were militants.
It's a common scenario, a United Nations human rights researcher said Friday in a statement on drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan.
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Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson just returned from the region, where he listened to residents talk about terrifying encounters with one of America's weapons in the war on terror.
"Adult males carrying out ordinary daily tasks were frequently the victims of such strikes," the statement from the U.N. office for human rights said.
Some Pashtun men dress the same as Taliban members from the same region, hence the drone operators mistake them for terror targets, the statement said. It is also customary for Pashtun men to carry a weapon, making them virtually indistinguishable from militants to an outsider.
The United States has 8,000 drones, unmanned planes and helicopters flown by a remote control. They are outfitted with a video camera to help the operator spot targets and often armed with weapons used to neutralize them.
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President Barack Obama has told CNN that a target must meet "very tight and very strict standards."
CIA director John Brennan has said that only in "exceedingly rare" cases have civilians been "accidentally injured, or worse, killed in these strikes."
READ: CNN Explains: U.S. drones

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