International lawyers have identified an existing but previously unacknowledged requirement in law for those who use or authorise the use of drone strikes to record and announce who has been killed and injured in each attack.
The finding is contained in a new report, ‘Drone Attacks, International Law, and the Recording of Civilian Casualties of Armed Conflict’, published today (23 June) by London-based think tank Oxford Research Group (ORG).
It accompanied a call for a global system to record casualties
Murder most foul.
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in History on June 22nd, 2011
I was in America when I learned of the brutal death of Saleem Shahzad, whom I had met many years back through Kamal Majidullah, who was Editor of the eveninger, The Star of the Dawn Group, in those days.
I had interacted with Saleem and he had helped me in exposing the mismanagement and corruption in the KESC, before its privatization, through his investigative reporting. However, over the years, I had lost touch with him, until one day, he came to the Helpline Trust office to lodge a complaint against a consumer product.
It was then that he informed me that he had been appointed as Pakistan
Kharotabad incident: Is Pakistani Society Responsible?
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in History on June 13th, 2011
Allah presents Challenges as Problems or Tests to Mankind, but Also Provides Solutions Within the Problems Themselves.
Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.
Inna maAAa alAAusri yusran
Al-Qu’raan Surah 96:4
