Drone victim family will be first to testify before Congress
By Natasha Lennard for Salon.com.
Rafiq ur Rehman, a primary school teacher in Pakistan’s beleaguered Waziristan province has felt personally and profoundly the impact of U.S. drone strikes in his region. In one strike last October, not only were his three young children, aged five to 13, injured, but his 67-year-old mother was killed.
Read moreDrone Strike Survivors Prepare To Tell Congress Their Story
By Hayes Brown for ThinkProgress.
WASHINGTON, DC — “What are you drawing?” I ask through the interpreter. Shyly, the nine year-old girl in the headscarf sitting across the table from me holds up the paper, showing me the shooting star and rainbows she’d drawn in crayon while I’ve been talking to her father and brother. Nothing on the paper would indicate that Nabeela Rehman and her older brother Zubair are the survivors of an alleged drone strike in northwest Pakistan, one that took her grandmother’s life and set them on the path to coming to Washington to tell their story to Congress.
Read morePakistani Victims of CIA Drone Strike Travel to US to Bring Their Story to Americans
By Kevin Gosztola for Firedoglake.com.
Rafiq ur Rehman is a Pakistani whose 67-year-old mother was killed and whose children were injured by a CIA drone strike. His family has received no explanation from the US government on why she was killed.
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Drone documentary coming to Hill
By Patrick Gavin for Politico.
Robert Greenwald, the filmmaker behind such documentaries as “Outfoxed,” “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” and “Koch Brothers Exposed,” has turned his lens on the subject of drones in “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars,” and he’s bringing his message to the Hill.
Family of grandmother killed in US drone strike arrive for Congress visit
By Ryan Devereaux for The Guardian.
Drawing on a pad of paper in a Washington DC hotel, Nabeela ur Rehman recalled the day her grandmother was killed. "I was running away," the nine-year told the Guardian. "I was trying to wipe away the blood."
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Documentary on drone screened
By Amir Jalil Bobra for The Nation.
ISLAMABAD - Drones are counterproductive, they raise anti-American sentiments. People in the tribal areas don't like militants, but they also hate drones," said Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan at the opening ceremony of Unmanned America Drone Wars documentary, here on Saturday.
Read moreJemima Film on drone victims moves audiences
By Waseem Abbasi for The International News.
ISLAMABAD: A moving documentary directed by US filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation highlights the plight of innocent drone victims and exposes the blatant lies of the US administration about the precision and efficacy of drone attacks.
Read moreDocumentary screening: The human face of the US drone policy
By Maryam Usman for the Express Tribune with the International New York Times.
Islamabad: Drone strikes are counterproductive, against humanitarian law and have embroiled Pakistan in a never-ending war. This was stated by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan at the opening ceremony of the screening of a documentary film titled “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars” on Saturday.
Read moreThe victims of drone strikes speak
By Syeda Shehrbano Kazim for Dawn.com.
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Jemima Khan and the Brave New Foundation released their latest documentary film, Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars on Saturday before an audience of 200 people from the diplomatic community, civil society and journalists.
Read moreThe Dirtiness of US Drone War
By Debra Sweet for WarIsACrime.org.
Almost 5 years after the spike in U.S. use of targeted killing of people via drone by the Obama administration (thousands have been killed), the United Nations, or rather its special rapporteur Ben Emmerson, has released a report saying these drone strikes by the United States have killed civilians by the hundreds, or more, and should be carried out in accordance with international law.
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