killed fifty nine casualties a lack of transparency and no justice for the victims amnesty international law washington the drone war in pakistan saying some of the killings amounts to war crimes. and no way becomes the latest e.u. country to sound the alarm over.

amnesty international u.s.a. she is joining us in washington, d.c. good morning to you, miss shaw. >> good morning. >> she's are damaging claims here. how can amnesty international, the claims that the u.s. has breached international law, how can you be 100% the u.s. has breached international law. >> this is a highly politicized issue. we were incredibly careful about the evidence that we assembled and the specific cases that we documented here. we assembled specific teams to interview people in north pakistan and corroborated eyewitness accounts of these attacks with satellite imagery, video evidence. we were careful about what we found here and had a lot of serious concerns. >> most of the drone strikes in pack 17 and yemen occur in areas that are hostile to outsiders, making your groups assessments very difficult to confirm. >> that's true. that's one of the reasons it was so important that we only focused on a few cases. we are not in a position to corroborate claims about an overall number of civilian casualties. we can tell you that a 64-year-old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables in her large, mostly vacant family field. she was blown to bits before the eyes of her grandchildren. another attack, i