Joint report with Human Rights Watch judges US attacks in Yemen - TopicsExpress



          

Joint report with Human Rights Watch judges US attacks in Yemen and Pakistan to have broken international human rights law. Amnesty International has serious concerns that this attack violated the prohibition of the arbitrary deprivation of life and may constitute war crimes or extrajudicial executions, the report said. It called for those responsible to stand trial. The US has repeatedly claimed very few civilians have been killed by drones. It argues its campaign is conducted consistent with all applicable domestic and international law. The Amnesty report supports media accounts from October last year that a 68-year-old woman called Mamana Bibi was killed by a missile fired from a drone while she was picking okra outside her home in North Waziristan with her grandchildren nearby. A second strike minutes later injured family members tending her.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:59:15 +0000

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