{"id":23222,"date":"2014-04-07T07:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23222"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:54:40","slug":"art-group-in-pakistan-shows-drone-operators-who-theyre-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/art-group-in-pakistan-shows-drone-operators-who-theyre-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Group in Pakistan Shows Drone Operators Who They&#8217;re Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/notabugsplat-art-installation-in-pakistan-2014-4\">Business Insider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/17\/us-killings-tragedies-pakistan-bug-splats\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug splats<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed.<\/p>\n<p>To challenge this insensitivity as well as raise awareness of civilian casualties, an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan, where drone attacks regularly occur. Now, when viewed by a drone camera, what an operator sees on his\u00a0<a id=\"KonaLink0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/notabugsplat-art-installation-in-pakistan-2014-4#\"><span style=\"color: #007705;\">screen<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is not an anonymous dot on the landscape, but an innocent child victim\u2019s face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23224\" alt=\"screen shot 2014-04-06 at 4.17.13 pm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-shot-2014-04-06-at-4.17.13-pm.png\" width=\"576\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-shot-2014-04-06-at-4.17.13-pm-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-shot-2014-04-06-at-4.17.13-pm.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider: In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as\u00a0\u2018bug splats\u2019,\u00a0since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed. To challenge this insensitivity as well as raise awareness of civilian casualties, an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed [&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-23222","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\/23222","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=23222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23225,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions\/23225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}