Living under drones
Subtitle: death, injury, and trauma to civilians from US drone practices in Pakistan
Publisher: International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, Stanford Law School; Global Justice Clinic, NYU School of Law
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif.; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Civilian war casualties; Drone aircraft; Civilians in war; Terrorism; Prevention; Government policy; Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles; Anti-Americanism; Military policy; Evaluation
Other titles: Death, injury, and trauma to civilians from US drone practices in Pakistan
Description: "In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling "targeted killing" of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts. This narrative is false. Following nine months of intensive research-- including two investigations in Pakistan, more than 130 interviews with victims, witnesses, and experts, and review of thousands of pages of documentation and media reporting-- this report presents evidence of the damaging and counterproductive effects of current US drone strike policies. Based on extensive interviews with Pakistanis living in the regions directly affected, as well as humanitarian and medical workers, this report provides new and firsthand testimony about the negative impacts US policies are having on the civilians living under drones"--Executive summary.
Notes: "September 2012."

"This report is the result of nine months of research by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic)"--Page i.

Stanford Clinic team: James Cavallaro, Stephan Sonnenberg led the team; student research team: Adelina Acuña, Mohammad M. Ali, Anjali Deshmukh, Jennifer Gibson, Jennifer Ingram, Dimitri Phillips, Wendy Salkin, Omar Shakir. Sarah Knuckey led the NYU Clinic team; Christopher Holland was the student researcher.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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