{"id":22230,"date":"2013-01-21T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/21\/284752\/us-drone-assassinations-flout-all-laws\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:02:47","slug":"us-assassination-drones-flout-all-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-assassination-drones-flout-all-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"‘US assassination drones flout all laws’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An activist says the assassination drone attacks carried out by the US around the world are against all domestic and international laws and disregard the sovereignty of nations.<\/p>\n

“We want open transparency. Personally, I find the drone program completely illegal because it’s killing people off the battlefield. It’s becoming an institutionalized form of assassination that’s really against all international and national laws,” Toby Blome, a CodePink peace activist from Washington, told Press TV on Sunday.<\/p>\n

She called on the countries coming under drone strikes to launch investigations into the assassination attacks “to find out when they have a drone strike, who really is killed? They really don’t. They fire the Hellfire missiles and they go on and do their next job.”<\/p>\n

“It is completely illegal and people of conscience, Americans who are aware – and unfortunately most Americans don’t realize, that’s the other scary part, is that most Americans are totally unaware of what we’re really doing with these drone weapons,” the activist said.<\/p>\n

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Washington uses its assassination drones in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, claiming that they target the terrorists. The attacks, however, have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nBlome went on to say: “This is a really different kind of warfare that’s never existed before. We’re going around the world killing people while they’re in their kitchens cooking meals. We’re killing, attacking funerals and weddings.<\/p>\n

Some reports say US drone operations in Yemen nearly tripled in 2012 compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n

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