Tag: Fieldwork
65 Dead Civilians: First-ever look into 13 U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan’s Kurram
Between 2001 and 2021, the United States carried out more than 450 drone and air strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas as part of its so-called “War on Terror.” Spanning three U.S. administrations, the campaign was repeatedly criticised by international watchdog organisations over allegations of excessive civilian and child casualties. A U.S. Joint Special Operations Command…
“My Father Wasn’t a Terrorist” – First Ever Eyewitness Accounts of 2 U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan
Skip to the eyewitness accounts here. On 14th December 2013, a U.S. drone missile struck a fishing boat on the Kabul River in the Loi Shalman area of Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area. The news was broken that a U.S. Predator attack had killed five ‘suspected militants’. A safe phrasing that gave the U.S. plausible deniability…