Failures and Lies of U.S. Drone Policy Exposed in New Film and Human Rights Reports [VIDEO]

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http://www.alternet.org/activism/failures-and-lies-us-drone-policy-exposed-new-film-and-human-rights-reports-video

For almost a decade, the United States government has downplayed the effects of drone warfare in Pakistan and other locales. Now, for the first time, a groundbreaking documentary, " Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars” by the award-winning film maker, Robert Greenwald, focuses on the human cost of drone strikes. The hard-hitting film exposes the lies and double talk emanating from the U.S. government about the extent of civilian death and destruction on the ground in Pakistan.

The film opens this week in New York, London and Islamabad, just as two highly damning reports documenting the magnitude of civilian casualties in the face of Obama administration denials have emerged from the human rights community. In addition, firebrand progressive Congressman, Alan Grayson, will hold a hearing in D.C this week with drone victims, some who appear in the film and have traveled from Pakistan to the U.S. to share their tragic stories.

Most Americans would be surprised to learn that since 2004, the government has launched close to 400 drone strikes abroad with the Obama administration responsible for over 300 of those attacks.

As drone technology continues to expand at a rapid pace globally, there are no signs to suggest the United States has any intention of slowing down its drone development program. This is despite overwhelming evidence proving that U.S drones strikes are responsible for between 400-900 civilian casualties in Pakistan alone and directly in violation of international law – potentially amounting to war crimes.

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1. Chances are Obama is not aware

because nobody told him.