A human rights organization has managed to pass a law in Yemen\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s National Dialogue Conference (NDC) to criminalize US killer drone strikes, Press TV<\/b> reports.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cWe managed to pass a law in the first phase of the outcome of the National Dialogue [Conference], criminalizing the killing outside of law, including drone strikes and targeted missiles,\u201d said Baraa Shiban, who is the project coordinator for the London-based human rights organization Reprieve.\n<\/p>\n
Shiban, who is also a member of the transitional justice team in NDC, said he expected the law \u00c5\u201cshould be adopted by Yemen\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s government right after the National Dialogue.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He also referred to one of the main projects conducted by his organization this year in Yemen\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s southern city of Abyan.\n<\/p>\n
He said that during a meeting with a number of children and parents, who were victims of drone strikes, the right group noticed how much assassination drone strikes had affected ordinary people in the area.\n<\/p>\n
Shiban said that the US drone strikes had resulted in terrorizing the children from going to school or farmers from working on their farms.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cThe drone strike is not just the matter of killing one single person. You\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re destroying the whole community by just one drone strike,\u201d Shiban stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The United States has stepped up its drone operations in Yemen over the past few years. On June 1, seven people died in a drone attack in Abyan province. <\/p>\n
According to the Washington-based think tank, the New America Foundation, the US drone attacks in Yemen almost tripled in 2012.\n<\/p>\n
In April, Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms said the US drones had conducted more than 80 attacks in the country last year.\n<\/p>\n
Washington has come under fire for increasing the drone attacks in Yemen, where the people have held many demonstrations to condemn the violation of Yemen\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s sovereignty by the airstrikes.\n<\/p>\n
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