Drone strikes must stop: US human rights lawyer

[The Northerner]

ISLAMABAD: Prominent international human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith intends to initiate a campaign aiming to draw attention towards the innocent civilians who are killed by drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.

Stafford Smith, who was impressed by 16-year-old boy Tariq Aziz with whom he was working to take pictures of people killed by the remotely piloted aircraft to help Stafford Smith highlight what he calls illegal killings.

On October 31, Aziz and his 12-year-old cousin were themselves killed by a drone missile strike in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, Stafford Smith said.

For the veteran lawyer, the deaths highlighted major flaws in the CIA-run drone campaign, which US officials say is invaluable in the war on militants.

Read more: http://tribune.com.pk/story/288996/drone-strikes-must-stop-us-human-rights-lawyer/

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1. Surely Clive Stafford Smith realizes that when the guys who wear the white hats

are on a mission to kill all the guys who wear the black hats, some collateral damage is bound to happen. :patriot: