The U.S. has conducted over 400 drone strikes on Pakistan – and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has now found that fewer than 12% of people killed have been identified by available records as militants.
While on the ground, Brave New Films interviewed real people whose innocent relatives like an elderly grandma and beloved children were killed in drone strikes.
All of this makes it clear that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim last year that only “confirmed terrorist targets at the highest level” were fired at is simply not true.
Additionally, these covert and murderous military strikes result in creating more and more enemies for the American people - who have little to no knowledge of the killings being carried out in our name. And this anti-American sentiment fuels terrorism. For every one person that is killed, thousands of terrorists are created.
The US drone policy is immoral, often illegal and harms U.S. standing in the world. It is time to stop the killing of innocent people.