{"id":16491,"date":"2012-09-25T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=16491"},"modified":"2012-09-25T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:50:10","slug":"living-under-drones-report-interviews-victims-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/living-under-drones-report-interviews-victims-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Living Under Drones&#8217; Report Interviews Victims in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/25\/study-counterproductive-drone-war-terrorizes-civilians-in-pakistna\/\">new report<\/a> from the Stanford and NYU schools of law has found that the US drone war in Pakistan is &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; and &#8220;terrorizes&#8221; the civilian population. Read the report <a href=\"http:\/\/livingunderdrones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Stanford_NYU_LIVING_UNDER_DRONES.pdf\">here<\/a>. See this video below accompanying the release of the report.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6yMOzvmgVhc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <em>The Independent<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/outrage-at-cias-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-8174771.html\">has posted testimonies<\/a> from Pakistani locals suffering from the drone war:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The villagers brought us the news.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Khairullah Jan, whose brother was killed in a drone attack.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was &#8230; going to my house. That&#8217;s when I heard a drone strike and I felt something in my heart. I thought something had happened, but we didn&#8217;t get to know until the next day. That&#8217;s when all the villagers came and brought us news that [my brother] had been [killed]&#8230; I was drinking tea when I found out. [My] entire family was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My father&#8217;s body was scattered in pieces.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Waleed Shiraz, who was studying for a BA before he was injured by a strike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father was asleep \u2026 and I was studying near by \u2026 [When we got hit], [my] father&#8217;s body was scattered in pieces and he died immediately, but I was unconscious for three to four days \u2026 [Since then], I am disabled. My legs have become so weak and skinny that I am not able to walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Children, women, they are all affected.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Firoz Ali Khan, a shopkeeper in the town of Miranshah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been seeing drones since the first one appeared about four to five years ago \u2026 [We see drones] hovering [24 hours a day but] we don&#8217;t know when they will strike \u2026 People are afraid of dying \u2026 Children, women, they are all psychologically affected. They look at the sky to see if there are drones\u2026 [They] make such a noise that everyone is scared.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Stanford and NYU schools of law has found that the US drone war in Pakistan is &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; and &#8220;terrorizes&#8221; the civilian population. Read the report here. See this video below accompanying the release of the report. Update: The Independent has posted testimonies from Pakistani locals suffering from the drone war: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16493,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491\/revisions\/16493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}