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Rights Group to ICC: Investigate NATO Allies' Complicity in US Drone War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-8
"There can surely be no doubt that facilitating the deaths of thousands of civilians... constitutes war crimes."
Rights Group to ICC: Investigate NATO Allies' Complicity in US Drone War
- Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Published on Thursday, February 20, 2014 by Common Dreams
The International Criminal Court has been urged to investigate possible war crimes committed by NATO member states for their role in aiding the U.S. drone war in Pakistan.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that the hundreds of drone strikes the United States has launched on Pakistan since 2004 have killed 416-951 civilians, including as many as 200 children.
NATO members including the UK, Germany and Australia have been linked to providing the U.S. with intelligence used to carry out drone strikes.
The submission brought to the Court includes 13 case studies, UK-based charity Reprieve explained to Common Dreams, including that of Kareem Khan, a Pakistani anti-drone campaigner and journalist whose son and brother were killed in a 2009 drone attack.
