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El Supremo

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Mon Apr 7, 2014, 01:45 PM Apr 2014

Artists install massive poster of child’s face in Pakistan field to shame drone operators



An artists collective has unfurled a massive poster showing a child’s face in a heavily bombed area of Pakistan in the hopes that it will give pause to drone operators searching the area for kills.

According to #notabugsplat, named after the description given to kills on the ground when viewed through grainy video footage, the artists – with help of villagers – unfurled the giant poster in a field in the Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan.

The hope is that it will increase awareness of drone operators of human cost, or ‘collateral damage’, when drones are used to attack targets on the ground....

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/06/artists-install-massive-poster-of-childs-face-in-pakistan-field-to-shame-drone-operators/
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Artists install massive poster of child’s face in Pakistan field to shame drone operators (Original Post) El Supremo Apr 2014 OP
Brilliant! Kelvin Mace Apr 2014 #1
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