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In 2013, President Obama promised that before any U.S. drone strike, "there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured." Death by Drone questions whether he has kept that promise. The report casts serious doubt on whether the United States’ "near-certainty" standard is being met on the ground, and whether the U.S. is complying with international law. The nine case studies documented in this report provide credible evidence that U.S. airstrikes have killed and injured Yemeni civilians. These incidents include a drone strike that killed 12 people, including a pregnant woman and three children, and another in which the U.S. struck a house containing 19 people, including women and children.
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Amrit Singh is senior legal officer for national security and counterterrorism in the Open Society Justice Initiative. She is the author of Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition (Open Society Foundations, 2013). Previously she served as a staff attorney at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project.
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Death by Drone
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Open Society Foundations, 2015
ISBN 10: 1940983371
ISBN 13: 9781940983370
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Death by Drone; Civilian Harm Caused by U.S. Targeted Killings in Yemen
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Open Society Foundations, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1940983371
ISBN 13: 9781940983370
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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 123, [1] pages. Map. Illustrations (color). Endnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Amrit Singh directs the project on national security and counterterrorism at the Open Society Justice Initiative. She conducts strategic litigation, documentation and advocacy on a range of human rights issues relating to counterterrorism measures such as counter-radicalization, freedom of expression restraints, drone killings, rendition, torture, and arbitrary detention. Among other cases, she successfully litigated al Nashiri v. Poland, a challenge before the European Court of Human Rights to Poland's hosting of a secret CIA prison. She is the author of Eroding Trust, Death by Drone, and Globalizing Torture, and the co-author of Administration of Torture. Previously, Singh was a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she litigated immigrants' rights and national security cases. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Cedarbaum of the U.S. District Court in New York. She is a graduate of the Yale Law School, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. This report was jointly produced by the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, a Yemeni non-governmental organization, and the Open Society Justice Initiative. It documents the civilian harm caused by nine U.S. airstrikes, all apparently conducted by unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), in Yemen between May 2012 and April 2014. Field research for this report was conducted from May 2013 until April 2014, at the sites where each airstrike took place, in al-Baidha, Sana'a, al-Jawf, Hadramout, Marib, and Dhamar Governorates. The field research included 96 interviews with injured survivors and eyewitnesses of U.S. airstrikes, relatives of individuals killed or injured in these attacks, local community leaders, doctors and hospital staff who were involved in the treatment of victims, and Yemeni government officials. The research also gathered corroborating information, including written government statements issued in relation to civilian victims, photographs and videos of the aftermath of the drone strikes, and medical records. An independent munitions expert provided additional analysis. Research for this report was conducted in a context of pervasive U.S. and Yemeni government secrecy concerning the airstrikes, the tense security situation in many of the regions where the strikes took place, as well as the fear of reprisals that local communities experience in speaking openly about the strikes. In some instances, members of communities affected by the strikes refused to be interviewed. In other instances, security concerns prevented access to the sites of airstrikes. Interviews for this report were conducted in Arabic and translated into English. The interviewees were informed of the purpose of the interview and asked if they consented to their identities being disclosed in this report. The report does not provide identifying information for interviewees who were not comfortable with being identified. No financial or other incentives were offered to the interviewees for speaking with the researchers. This report does not purport to provide a comprehensive account of all civilian harm associated with all U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. Especially in light of the U.S. and Yemeni government secrecy associated with these strikes, it would be virtually impossible to conduct such a comprehensive study with sufficient accuracy. Rather, the aim of this report is to document the civilian harm caused by nine specific U.S. airstrikes. Specifically, this report seeks to determine the extent of this harm and when it occurred in relation to President Obama's Defense University (NDU) speech outlining the policy guidelines applied to U.S. targeted killings. The nine incidents described in this report were selected after research confirmed initial accounts of civilian harm from these strikes. In a number of cases, our findings of civilian casualties were confirmed by the statements and/or actions of. Seller Inventory # 73913