16 year old attends anti-drone protest, is killed by drone 72 hours later.

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http://www.democracy...lls_16_year_old

 

JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to look at the secret U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Late last month, a group of Pakistanis met in Islamabad to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. One of the attendees was a boy named Tariq Aziz, who had volunteered to learn photography to begin documenting drone strikes near his home. Within 72 hours of the meeting, Tariq Aziz himself was killed in a U.S. drone strike. He was 16 years old. His 12-year-old cousin was also killed.

 

AMY GOODMAN: We're joined now by Pratap Chatterjee, a reporter for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, director of CorpWatch. He was in Pakistan this month and went to the news conference, where Tariq Aziz was just days before he was killed. Pratap is back now in London.

 

Pratap, tell us what took place in Islamabad, how you came to meet Tariq Aziz, and then what happened.

 

PRATAP CHATTERJEE: Amy, a group here in London called Reprieve, which is a legal charity, and a group in Islamabad by the name of the Foundation for Fundamental Rights worked with Waziristan elders to create a Waziristan Grand Jirga, in which they brought together elders and families of those that had been killed in the drone strikes over the last five years in northern Pakistan. So they met at the Margala Hotel, and this jirga was held on Friday the 28th.

 

And there were probably 35 people, who were families, relatives of people who were killed, including—among them was Tariq Aziz, whom I met briefly, who was 16. And he had lost his cousin 18 months ago. His cousin's name is Aswar Ullah, who was killed when he was riding a motorbike near their home village of Norak.

 

So, at that meeting, the elders, as is typical in a jirga, met to discuss what had happened. They adopted a resolution condemning the strikes and then went to a rally organized by Imran Khan. And Tariq Aziz traveled with all of us to the rally. There were lawyers. There were reporters. It was an open meeting, an open rally in front of the parliament in Islamabad.

 

After that, Tariq Aziz and the other attendees returned to their homes. And 72 hours later, when Tariq was traveling with his 12-year-old cousin to go pick up his aunt on Monday morning, he was killed in a drone strike.

 

 

As part of a larger investigation on the CIA-led U.S. covert drone war, Chatterjee and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that drone strikes in Pakistan have killed at least 392 civilians, including 175 children. "I question as to whether the CIA is really attempting to identify people before they kill them," he says. "It would have been so easy for the CIA, the ISI, to come question these kids, to have taken them aside, even put them in jail or interrogated them... But instead they chose to kill them."

 

 

They hate us because we're free, amirite?

Edited November 9, 2011 by Shotgun

[Duck Fallas 209]

Kill a hundred to save millions, I guess. Shitty policy.

[WindyCitySports 407]

Yep, they hate us because we are free. This country has never needed Ron Paul more than we do now.

[GA_Eagle 595]

They hate us because we're free, amirite?

 

Can't speak for ya'll but they hate me cuz I bang mad bitches and havva fly ride with rims that spin.

Edited November 11, 2011 by GA_Eagle

[CARDINAL 205]

I wish that all these militants would be in one place at the same time, and then we could end these drone attacks in one shot. This will never end though because they fundametally treat women, minorities, and other sections of society worse then we do in the western and modern world. It will take them 100 years just to treat women and minorities with respect, and will probably take another 100 years or more to stop believing the garbage that these militants feed them. Pakistan is the definition of a shithole that doesn't function. All they have is nuclear weapons and islamic militants, which nobody in the rest of the world wants. Pakistan

[Thanatos 2,847]

I wish that all these militants would be in one place at the same time, and then we could end these drone attacks in one shot. This will never end though because they fundametally treat women, minorities, and other sections of society worse then we do in the western and modern world. It will take them 100 years just to treat women and minorities with respect, and will probably take another 100 years or more to stop believing the garbage that these militants feed them. Pakistan is the definition of a shithole that doesn't function. All they have is nuclear weapons and islamic militants, which nobody in the rest of the world wants. Pakistan

 

Yeah, that 12-year old cousin of his was a dangerous fugitive we had to kill.

 

Come on, Cardinal, did you even read the article?