Special rapporteur on counter-terror operations condemns Barack Obama's failure to establish effective monitoring process on US drone attacks.
He is incapable, and therefore one favored by the militarist circles.
According to The Guardian the United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva early next year to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians are killed in so-called targeted counter-terrorism operations.
A U.N. expert launched a probe of drone attacks to decide if using the attack aircraft against al-Qaida amounts to a war crime because it also kills civilians.
If the relevant states are not willing to establish effective independent monitoring mechanisms, then it may in the last resort be necessary for the UN to act.
Some US drone strikes in Pakistan may amount to war crimes. The announcement was made by Ben Emmerson QC, a UN special rapporteur.
Emmerson maintained that the US stance that it can conduct counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaida or other groups anywhere in the world because it is deemed to be an international conflict, it was indefensible.
He called the threat of widespread use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, a very serious and escalating situation that the international community must address urgently.
The rapporteur's probe will provide a critical examination of the factual evidence concerning civilian casualties from drone attacks and make recommendations to the U.N.
The probe will examine 25 attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.
A U.N. expert he already received a promise from Britain to cooperate with his investigation and said he hoped the United States would do the same.
The Obama administration, which has intensified drone use, had no immediate comment.
U.S. officials, I heard, defend drone strikes as a justified use of force against al-Qaida and its allies. They say such attacks have spared pilots' lives and forestalled deeper military involvement abroad.
We, too, need this kind of high_tech_systems to protect, by the replacement for the old People's Army.
Needed first.
1. Law. Need for the lawfulness and proportionality of such attacks
2. Ensures that there is no civilian casualties.
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