Pakistan is still killing those "civilians".
Not shocking you attempt to hide the crimes of the US, after all you take their money handouts with an open hand.
The
New America Foundation, which collects data from different media sources,
estimates a civilian casualty rate of approximately 17% between 2004 and 2011 and of 6% since 2010. The
Long War Journal, which likewise culls data from media reports, estimates a non-militant casualty rate of slightly less than 10%. Like the New America Foundation, the
Long War Journal finds that the civilian casualty rate has declined in recent years, to something like 8.5%. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which seems to base its data on media sources and other existing databases, estimates a considerably higher civilian casualty rate of 13-34%. Various other sources, including
official Pakistani data, the
New York Times, the
Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), and
Reuters, have estimated a range of civilian casualty rates, most of which fall within the spread set out by the three main databases discussed above.
Ben Emmerson, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism,
reported in March 2013 that
he had been informed that USG drone strikes in Pakistan routinely inflicted civilian casualties. Specifically, Emmerson's report stated that
he had been "informed that according to statistics compiled by [Pakistan's] Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there have been at least 330 drone strikes on the territory of Pakistan since 2004" and that "the total number of deaths caused by drone strikes was at least 2,200 that in addition at least 600 people had suffered serious injuries."
On 14 July 2009, Daniel L. Byman of the
Brookings Institution stated that although accurate data on the results of drone strikes is difficult to obtain,
it seemed that ten civilians had died in the drone attacks for every militant killed. Byman argues that civilian killings constitute a humanitarian tragedy and create dangerous political problems, including damage to the legitimacy of the Pakistani government and alienation of the Pakistani populace from America. He suggested that the real answer to halting al-Qaeda's activity in Pakistan will be long-term support of Pakistan's
counterinsurgencyefforts.
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More examples:
That is the implication of Thursday's news that the CIA accidentally killed 3 American and 1 Italian in separate drones strikes in Pakistan.
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