De Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic en de Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies hebben na onderzoek een rapport uitgebracht, waaruit blijkt dat de VS legertop maar 1 van de 5 dodelijke drone aanvallen op verdachten meldt. Met andere woorden, het enorme aantal slachtoffers dat de VS middels deze vreselijke terreuraanvallen heeft gemaakt, ligt nog veel hoger, dan men eerst aannam............
En dan vindt men het vreemd dat er terreuraanslagen worden gepleegd in het westen....... Moet u nagaan, dan noemde ik hiervoor niet eens de illegale oorlogen die de VS (met steun van andere westerse landen) begint tegen landen die niet de VS kont likken, zoals de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en nu weer Syrië......
Hier een artikel van Jason Ditz op Anti-War (Anti-Media) over deze rapportage:
Study: US Only Admits to About One in Five Lethal Drone Strikes
June
14, 2017 at 7:42 am
Written
by Jason
Ditz
(ANTIWAR.COM) — A new
report compiled by
the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and the Sanaa Center for
Strategic Studies has found that the United States only admits
officially to about one fifth of their drone strikes which end up
killing someone, saying this hurts accountability.
That
the US has been deliberately evasive about its drone program is
hardly news, but this appears to be the first study aimed at
specifically figuring exactly how many lethal drone strikes have been
officially acknowledged.
This
has been a growing problem with US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria as
well, with official Pentagon figures on civilian death tolls
dramatically lower than those recorded by private NGOs, with the
difference often a factor of ten or more as the US downplays the
tolls.
In
the case of the drone strikes, it’s less about covering up civilian
deaths than all deaths and the scope of the drone war, because little
to no effort was ever made to identify who was killed in specific
drone strikes, and the only times names were made public were in the
very unusual cases that someone was killed who had previously been
heard of by the military.
Drone
strikes were limited through the end of President Bush’s second
term, and grew rapidly under President Obama. While the rate of drone
strikes dropped near the end of Obama’s time in office, they appear
to once again have begun growing substantially under President
Trump’s watch, bringing back concerns about how the US has long
mishandled reporting on the operations.
The
Columbia report was particularly concerned with the lack of
transparency in “lethal” operations, irrespective of who they
actually end up killing, noting that it’s impossible to ensure
proper accountability, particularly when those lethal actions end up
killing innocent bystanders, when the government won’t even keep
formal track of how many killings they’re taking part in.
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