Those who use drones have

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