did the study fellow man woman that you met him when i did i mean it letting us know. about. princes read my hands not from paper cuts of exploding shrapnel forced upon features. children. and innocent men bodies and. young. children. for a country. for profit. for yourself. how can you smile. killing has become just like a video game joystick steers a drone towards the targets and with a simple press of the pots and a bomb drops and. the explosive is real just like the people it falls on. villages

in afghanistan or pakistan from the safety of a bunker in the u.s. . so how do you feel about the trip. was three three filming days yeah exactly so is it really important that the relatives of the victims honestly get says lama bought in time. otherwise we'll get nothing well you can go to the tribal areas anyway because of security reasons. i'm fewer flights there are enough. thank. you if america please some new number i will that's the important thing and . i'll call our producer ok and then we'll figure out just where you could look all the best.

a lot of the year according to the bureau of investigative journalism there have been more than four hundred drone strikes in c. thousand and four killing around a thousand innocent civilians and that's just in pakistan a local contact is taking me to meet a man who narrowly avoided one of those strikes. oh. i'm going to get on with you men out of these times above them. and nothing to them if you can you give them but. i love them but. the fight over the struggle to go understand it was to do because

of my be zero vote for. me if you get your due diligence. to her. credit her it was the worst on is the mountainous region between pakistan and afghanistan a self-proclaimed bottom recognised states populated with disaffected pashtun tribes has been viewed as a taliban stronghold since two thousand and one attacks on the government has so far been unable to regain control of the area. malik claims to have been personally targeted by at least four drone strikes since two thousand and ten. was it a stunning to go at this time it was no. shortage of the. latest. to be a. little let up on the hill. to face like a. shawn

west small and is a former drone communications technician since leaving yet false he struggled to come to terms with the role he played in the u.s. drone program. yeah i was so i was sleeping in the back of this truck all the way for about a quarter of last year. growth in things i mean psychological issues. so yeah the fed back there a little space here and sleeping on top of the mountain wasn't getting the help i needed and you know i was kind of i knew on issues back in october and. you know i had slipped at the bridge. a couple of nights and i was. seriously planning on jumping. and.

i decided. i shouldn't do that and i should i should get help then i should. you know you probably have somebody else. taking care of me for a certain amount of time. there is a member of the community that was nice enough to allow me to basically sublet this place and be the groundskeeper here for about a year. i haven't really had a stable place to stay up until now but i had gardening knowledge so you know when you're in the military your chief purpose is mostly to destroy things. you know i have been dealing with that for a while. so. having i mean you know the ability to work on plants and stuff like this is kind of feeling for me. because i'm going you

know from using my creative energy to destroy things to creating life's wealth that it was thank you very much for directions i look forward to meeting you. yeah thank you very much. i arranged to meet at the new mexico state university flight center the sense of where integrates an unmanned aircraft into regular international airspace and these people know everything there is to know about drugs. i did twenty nine years the united states navy any type of intel is good intel when you're not chancing a pilot's life that's even better plus when you think about it in the future is unmanned an f. sixteen can take a probably a fifteen or twenty degree turn the problem is the pilot passes out at nine or ten

g. so if you take the pilot out does that make it a better fighter aircraft well sure it does because now it turns tighter it goes faster just doesn't want. these are excellent tools and not so we always say this isn't a solution it's a choice. the flew the tiger shark in afghanistan or iraq and this aircraft get us there so an iraqi police get to go without leaving the base you can see you know countryside out there. without having to worry about get shot down yeah yeah. so the b.s.a. is they keep people safe yeah there are some operations were when i was flying. you know troops are in contact you know they told us to go down and fly low they could try to draw fire oh really ok they were able to get people out because they were. firing at us from. the movement for justice is

a political party in pakistan the taliban branded its leader opposition politician emraan khan and infidel and even wanted him dead we met at his home in islamabad now under constant armed guard he's one of pakistan's most popular politicians organizing rallies that attract thousands of followers he doesn't believe the conflict can be solved militarily neither in afghanistan or pakistan i feel that this is a total violation of human rights it killing people by these drones basically sitting on a screen and eliminating people dehumanizing them treating them. as if you know from some other planet not giving them a basic right of proving the innocence i mean it violates all norms of justice they claim they have intelligence that shows that there are terrorists. they are bombing villages their villages their their houses their mud houses the bombing

them and then that think that the a bone when it's when it busts when it's spent is that the shop will knows exactly who is a terrorist and who is a woman and was a child with a grandmother i mean there is so many instances of people being killed who had nothing to do with the terrorism and and then those who call terrorist sometimes they claim that they have killed a terrorist and then you see he is alive so who have they killed. i received a performance report resist which was intended for like promotional purposes. it was said that isis and she doesn't want to close air support missions and two hundred plus enemy chills with we'd ask if there are several of us that ass you know how many civilians died and they wouldn't tell us but if you understand the areas that we're covering and you were to look at the unanimous report on the

amount of civilian casualties and happened that year. there would be somewhere around three hundred fifty nine. you can understand in a way that ok americans maybe don't see that their actions are in fact fuel any more terrorism but why does the pakistani governments not put more pressure in order to stop this program and on its own land all the seas dollars and if you pay them enough dollars they're willing to. allow americans to bomb their own country which is an ally of the us i guess that is a us ally in this war on terror so it's never happened in history where but a country is bombed by its own ally god god god oh. oh . i. know about

from as a journalist from north waziristan whenever there is any drone strike local people call him so he can document the number of innocent civilians killed. somebody was done me but. for those hoping this that i come to jump the gun drawn those at the top of the mud on the basis of one minute i did that they are like a taxi go home for you but it was not drawn compliment. is it is the other kind of that argument will help a. maybe they need think that they look i'd like you to many need. these days that i know where you are in the world the chances are you're being watched and with a seemingly unstoppable proliferation of drones privacy may be a thing of the pasta military drones have resulted in the deaths of thousands of

innocent people and to strike any time and place it so it's one thousand meters in the yeah you probably won't have the slightest idea you'll be watched and if the itzhak you won't see it coming. given the way in which the last terrorist attacks were proclaimed structured using european logistics these as you say before there's a certain desire to change the way of life change to society and for this. the talk of impending war around the world is on the increase the great power speak

openly on the need for a pair for a conflict what does this tell us if anything it appears to be a sign the global order that came into being up in the second world war and the cold war has come to an end what is replacing it. anything through the back or front. think well maybe in back when you're going to the shoulda been the if it's your choice when it is your let me get them out in front of me. if you don't feel comfortable then we're in the back that way when we do we're going to for status we have to turn around and come at this way.

forty fifty me also i. see the face just behind me is assigned with those statistics the number of victims killed in all the different countries where drones have been used on a sign that says just say no war. so it is not just the far east or. a killing of the nine outs and innocent people it's the father the killing people anyway but the fact you know the united states does not have the right to defend world no sometimes i get frustrated because the most tragic part of the children that get yeah but sometimes the civilian issue is imprecise too much and it's just the idea of assassination that you know. they say is code pink an organization founded and run by a group of women campaigning to end u.s. wars and militarism today they're protesting against creech air base but civil. all the people i met i was keen to talk more to underwrite

a former army colonel and u.s. diplomats. creech drone base is the only place really in the world where you can see drones taking off and landing they're the practice vehicles for drone pilots that are just learning to control them yeah and then will start controlling them in afghanistan or pakistan somalia yemen who knows really where they will it's also based not only for u.s. military pilots and contractors and cia but also the british for years have had drone pilots and if you look way back in there at those facilities you know back in there somewhere are the actual control pods where the pilots that are controlling them in afghanistan and pakistan sure. we know that in this midst of thousands of cars to come in every morning and believe. that there are drone pilots

that may have just killed somebody in afghanistan or pakistan may have killed a wedding party or. whatever and you don't know who the people you know know now. if you know here to protect you. if you should be anything like that everybody so i just like the deal with them for. me. to tell my children or you are the advance implies. that you're on the clock i mean i think you know anything to be called the lady people might think. well i think your first and foremost let me go yeah and it does matter everybody that he did it well yeah it's amazing your compassion what do you think it will light a lie so i didn't interrupt him is like faceless mosques is kind of the face of the victims of the jones i don't want force mr west. they're under the criminal right.

now and we're fascinating in that he should be arrested let's not read between the rows on sports and anything not to be unfair they're trying hard to run. was. being there and. he thought i was. done over mixed emotions really i was expecting the process to be a bit bigger if i'm honest there are about fifteen people and you've got to wonder . what effect such a small process is going to have on the people people entering the base the

government. and yet kareem khan lives in waziristan and there's another drone victim his relatives still i didn't want to track you. could. give them. is that middle hostilities and out of that in in the c.b.o.t. them c b bus but i've got all you'll be they'll come to deal with the incumbent will. they be just you know took the can we get the judge at the end i glance at the end but at the michael that i can even bend is going to make them happy scale us once again. eat and. eat. like a stone a lawyer says that bar defies the rights of drone attack victims he says the problem is almost never discussed. because victims simply have nowhere and nobody

to turn save. drone strikes have been taking place in mostly north waziristan and so it was a thought. tribe. which is cut off from rest of the country because of many reasons but to put it very simply it's a black hole of information now turn. now to turn. so this is was very much coverage from waziristan you know from also cites we actually have. pictures of people who have been killed by these and as i was as well so what we did is like in two thousand and twelve we did a. negative mission very powerful so for example in this religion on such and such a date this was i was at a word from a house that killed six people including theodore's and one child.

the nightmares about standing in a village trying to get the kids to you know come on to me. and to some shelter in their own just standing you know looking into drones and. you know before anybody could really get them to come in and. they exploded. so i would need to make matson was also. to base don't let just close on the country lecturing about drones so we should people in stores house. that was expensive and you go. put it this year like

a drone hello nic hello he's peter so these are the four hell fires and the two bombs i'm assuming yes it's all right these are all these are all laser guided bombs right in missiles ok and in the hellfire missile. it was made for use against trucks armor you know tanks and buildings and so when that's used against people and then the course this is the camera of fear ok you know it was used to target people the whole message of this to the people in other countries is terror this shows places in africa where it's known that there are drone bases or drone operations of some kind. and one of the questions is about.

i think most people in germany are not in favor of drone war but the united states has. a. drone relay information control center and rob stein and it seems to be very critical information coming from creech air force drone control center in the united states to rob stein and then through satellite the drones might be controlled to attack in yemen or you know afghanistan or iraq yeah yeah somalia. so it seems that rob stein is very critical node in this.

to find out more about germany's role of consequence to me to address it with a lawyer defending the rights of the survivors of the jones striking again and. complaining against. the german government especially as they bring forward so use of the ramstein air base can you explain the loss the the legality or illegality of germany allowing the u.s. to use ramish that as a relay base yes we see that the use of drones of thrones buzzing united states for example in yemen. is a violation of international law because. many people are killed sir many civilians are killed in yemen and that's unlawful under international law standards it's also unlawful under german law standards. to cancer then i mean we need to put you to be

had better. just. stop ramstein activists cornishman it's driving us to the airbase on our way he told us that the movement has grown dramatically in the few months since it was founded in two thousand and fifteen the group's first rally in september was one of the biggest protest marches against the american air base for twenty years so many things in english here and other areas. deliver more american than german really yes it is not only true but it is you guys are so loud i leave it at eighty dollars and into town and thirty's hours and americans in the. region i didn't. know what happened. you know that they control they killed maybe four dollars and people would buy drilled into i

controlled by it i'm shot i am born in. the navy we reach for mom stein. and it is my duty to say no to the. i don't know if i need to be successful my success is to do wheat every year fourteen thousand airplanes going over my house. well not necessarily there's a very small drone called the an eagle and the drone next of a snake matson says you a piece will soon be capable of making autonomous decisions to carry you and there is. research that goes on around you know as far as we can gather using. digital imaging people's faces to be put into the computer so that they can the drone can identify individual people ok on if.

the idea there would be if you are drone pilots who don't want to fly drones just yet there are other drone pilots and what the drones do the job of them so. form a drone communications technician shawn westmoreland still haunted by night mess believes that tomorrow's drones will not be troubled by human conscience. machine learning. to show intelligence and. machines designed to make kill decisions. that's a little time to. talk. about. thank. the sleaze that so much i've seen lately can you imagine what will happen later on in the loop we've seen this happen for how many years now you must wonder what will

it say it for them to put an end so it was special no know how much money the arms industry is making from me exactly it just recently we had once again another example of in pakistan the drone strike and we had those i don't want to kill the guy from afghanistan exact exactly right so we had the pakistani government slamming the us for violating its sovereignty but the current this all different war how many times i want to build up a challenge. i find. so incredible that. people in the united states accept the us as a we're fighting to. this should be some growth but they're winning the war. no. no no of. course with all the support. for them i'm out of but true but had a bit on the album of the i'm not a title by july but what it is kind of but old school didn't embody but not beat up it was.

even if she. can do to keep it as i live it here. lena really need. a deep. beyond. beyond. we have many things in this world sounds this is it enough for everyone and why don't some peoples also take our things all the power just for themselves instead of seeing what you think will be.

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