Good. UN launches inquiry into drone killings

[Luminous Animal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21176279

The UN is launching an inquiry into the impact on civilians of drone strikes and other targeted killings.

There is a need for "accountability and reparation where things have gone badly wrong", the British lawyer heading the investigation told journalists.

Ben Emmerson QC, a UN special rapporteur, said the "exponential" rise of drone technology required a proper legal framework to be put into place.

The inquiry will study the impact of drone strikes in five places.

Twenty-five attacks will be examined - in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Palestinian territories and Somalia.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Hopefully, some of the criminals guiding them will be brought to justice.

I doubt it but one never knows.

[Luminous Animal]

2. I suspect if the UN's findings are negative, we'll see a whole bunch of "liberals"

joining conservatives calling for defunding or pulling out of the UN.