Amnesty International Insinuates Nobel Peace Prize Winner President May Be War Criminal
Amnesty International is calling for the US to investigate the civilian casualties resulting from extrajudicial killings by President Barack Obama using drones. A study taken from recent attacks asserted that 9 out of 45 strikes conducted by the president needlessly killed unarmed civilians.
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The report focuses on the death of 68-year-old Mamana Bibi, who was allegedly killed by a drone in October of 2012 while she picked vegetables with her grandchildren. Her grand kids were injured as well in the attack. The U.S. Government has refused to release details about the bombing, which means the report is unable to provide firm conclusions on the killings.
The report states that, “based on its review of incidents over the last two years, Amnesty International is seriously concerned that these and other strikes have resulted in unlawful killings that may constitute extrajudicial executions or war crimes”.
The president publicly acknowledged a drone program in Pakistan. He also promised greater transparency in May of 2013.
“There must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured,” Obama said. He admitted that he deaths of civilians from them would haunt his administration, “as long as we live.”
The New York Times has reported on the effect that the drone strikes have in communities in Pakistan.
While the strike rate has dropped drastically in recent months, the constant presence of circling drones — and accompanying tension over when, or whom, they will strike — is a crushing psychological burden for many residents [of Miram Shah].
Sales of sleeping tablets, antidepressants and medicine to treat anxiety have soared, said Hajji Gulab Jan Dawar, a pharmacist in the town bazaar. Women were particularly troubled, he said, but men also experienced problems…. …
In the aftermath of drone strikes, things get worse. Many civilians hide at home, fearing masked vigilantes with the Ittehad-e-Mujahedeen Khorasan, a militant enforcement unit that hunts for American spies. The unit casts a wide net, and the suspects it hauls in are usually tortured and summarily executed.
So what do you believe? Do the extrajudicial killings of civilians and American citizens by the President of The United States make him a war criminal? Or does his Nobel Prize exempt him?
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