Legal framework required to stop CIA drone carnage
February 8, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Politics, Video Perspective
from - rt.com
СIA drones are attacking funeral processions and civilian and Taliban rescue teams in Pakistan. A staggering report exposing the practice has outraged NGOs and legal experts, who are demanding international laws to govern drone warfare.
Paramedic staff provide medical treatment to a victim of a missile attack in the tribal region, at a local hospital in Dera Ismail Khan March 26, 2009 (Reuters / Mustansar Baloch)
The investigation is a follow-up to last summer’s report issued by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, says Chris Woods, the author of the report.
“We’ve uncovered evidence that the CIA has repeatedly been targeting civilian and Taliban rescuers at the site of previous drone strikes [in Pakistan],” Woods told RT. “We identify by name 48 civilians killed in such attacks. We also identify two funerals deliberately attacked by the CIA…The Bureau also names five civilian mourners killed in a separate strike.”
