Washington, Nov 9 (ANI): Prominent international human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has said the rising death toll caused by the US drone attacks in Pakistan is as "scandalous" as the secret US bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Terming the attacks as major flaws in the CIA-run drone campaign, Smith said the strategy will cause more civilian deaths and create additional enemies for the United States.When you have warfare with no political costs at all, it becomes much too easy to resort to violence," he said, adding his goal was to raise international awareness about the suffering caused by drone strikes.
"What we are seeing in Waziristan is a process that is alienating the population just as napalm in Vietnam did and it's achieving very little benefit," The dawn quoted him, as saying. mith spoke about a 16-year-old boy, Tariq Aziz, who impressed him by drawing his attention to civilian deaths caused by US drone strikes in Pakistan.
Three days later, on October 31, he and his 12-year-old cousin were themselves killed by a drone missile strike in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, Smith said.
US officials say that the drone attacks are necessary in the war on militants, but Smith finds it 'absolutely disgusting'. "What they did to Tariq was absolutely disgusting," he added. (ANI)
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