United States to give victims of drone attacks, price

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United States to give victims of drone attacks, price

The military’s promise of a “surgical precision”. But the truth is, in the case of drone attacks that killed innocent civilians. Now the world’s number one Pay – which will be promptly challenged.

Ready for battle: U.S. drone in the model of the MQ-9 Reaper, “Reaper” (archive image)

The United States did in the case of drone attacks outside of the crisis, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, areas killed in the past years up to 116 civilians. This is evident from a report by the US secret service co-ordinator James Clapper. It is the first Time that the government will Pay to air attacks outside the main battle areas of public power.

The report, which goes back to a pledge made by President Barack Obama, covers the period 2009 until the end of 2015. At 473 attacks were killed, therefore, in addition to the listed civilians almost 2600 “fighters”. Almost all attacks were by drones, a few also carried out by aircraft or cruise missiles.

“We have more accurate information”

The Figures are not broken down by individual countries. They are mainly for the civilian victims of many hundred the information from human rights groups. This call for countries such as Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen, between 200 and 900 civilians killed. The report of the US government on this discrepancy and tried to explain that the NGOs may have killed fighters and civilians have mixed. On the other hand you have more accurate information.

Monitor image, the the tax man a MQ-9 Reaper combat drone sees on the floor (archive image)

Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria had been hidden as locations of current fight actions, – stated in the paper. Obama, the fighting of the old style are about on the field of battle an abomination, it is criticized for the policy of drone strikes for years, among other things, due to the high number of civilian casualties and often the unclear legal situation.

The attacks with the unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft, which were extended under Obama’s presidency, massive, straining relations with other countries, such as Pakistan. According to the findings of the Foundation of the New America the United States have more than 7,000 drones, of which 200 with weapons are equipped.

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“The protection of Bystanders is a priority”

Probably as a reaction to criticism of Obama’s adopted now, an arrangement that allows the protection of Bystanders in such attacks a priority. It also includes reparations for the families of killed civilians. This decree is not, however, practised, or at least aimed at U.S. policy. Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest said: “The President believes that our Anti-terrorism strategy is effective, and credible, if we keep it as transparent as possible.”

Amnesty International welcomed the release as a step to more transparency, criticized but that an analysis is complicated by the fact that the criteria for the concept of “civilian” would not be explained. The time of publication – the Friday afternoon before the long weekend, with the US national holiday on Monday – suggests that the White house expected harsh criticism of the establishment.

jj/fab (dpa, afp)