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Lodestar

(2,388 posts) Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:22 AM Feb 2014

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Drones Strikes: European Parliament Condemns Murder of Civilians

Source: International Business Times

The European Parliament condemned the US covert drone strikes that have killed thousands of civilians in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen, legal charity Reprieve reported.

534 out of 583 MEPs voted in favour of a resolution which demands that EU Member States "do not perpetrate unlawful targeted killings or facilitate such killings by other states", and calling on them to "oppose and ban practices of extra judicial targeted killings."

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/drones-strikes-european-parliament-condemns-murder-civilians-1438196

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Drones Strikes: European Parliament Condemns Murder of Civilians (Original Post) Lodestar Feb 2014 OP

kicking this thread frwrfpos Feb 2014 #1

And here is a rec. nt awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #2

non-binding resolution cosmicone Feb 2014 #3

General Atomics loves you. L0oniX Feb 2014 #4

The children of people killed by drones warrant46 Feb 2014 #5

The US would have more credibility on human rights issues.... Comrade Grumpy Feb 2014 #6

frwrfpos

(517 posts)

1. kicking this thread

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:30 AM

Feb 2014

and rec

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

2. And here is a rec. nt

Reply to frwrfpos (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:33 AM

Feb 2014

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

3. non-binding resolution

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:43 AM

Feb 2014

to appease

Drones are effective in controlling terror apparatuses and are here to stay.

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)

4. General Atomics loves you.

Reply to cosmicone (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 11:19 AM

Feb 2014

warrant46

(2,205 posts)

5. The children of people killed by drones

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 11:39 AM

Feb 2014

Will be back someday to settle the score.

Imagine if someone killed your parents are you just going to go to an ice cream parlor and have a cone?

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

6. The US would have more credibility on human rights issues....

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:27 PM

Feb 2014

...if it weren't killing civilians on the other side of the planet.

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