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NV Protesters: American Drones Killing Children

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Thursday, March 5, 2015   

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A protest under way near Creech Air Force Base, located northwest of Las Vegas, is centered on allegations the United States Air Force is operating an anti-terrorism drone program that is killing innocent civilians. John Amidon is a member of Veterans for Peace, among the organizations staging the protest.

He alleges drone pilots at Creech Air Force Base are remotely piloting missions thousands of miles away and killing innocent people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

"They end up killing children and not the enemy combatants they hoped for," he says. "We have quite a lot of information now that indicates for every intended target, 28 unknown innocent people are killed."

Amidon cites information from the U.K.-based human rights organization Reprieve, which on its website claims President Obama personally signs off on each day's "kill list." The public affairs staff at Creech Air Force Base had not replied to our request for a response to the protesters' allegations by the time this story was produced.

Amidon says the protest and a television commercial airing in Las Vegas are meant to draw attention to what he claims is a "drone assassination program."

"We are conducting a judge, jury, and execution with very intangible bits of information," he says. "We have no due process. We have no respect for sovereignty of other nations. We are violating international law."

The commercial airing on local television shows images of alleged drone killings, and calls on drone pilots to "please refuse to fly."


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