'If any other country launched this program, we would rightly call it an unlawful, extrajudicial, and arbitrary use of force,' said ACLU attorney HinaShamsi. 'Yet it is a core component of what Americans now call our forever or endless wars.'
Experts on the conduct and consequences of U.S. drone strikes delivered harrowing testimony Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee"If any other country launched this program, we would rightly call it an unlawful, extrajudicial, and arbitrary use of force."
"But the order of the day by the majority is drones," he added, before calling on witnesses to testify. that former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama"started using drones strikes in Yemen without Congress or the American public ever even having a conversation about it." Shamsi later came under fire from Sen. Lindsey Graham , who angrily interrupted her while she was attempting to offer a nuanced answer to a question about whether or not al-Qaeda and ISIS would attack the United States if they could.
"U.S. operations take a psychological toll on survivors and on impacted communities," al-Mutawakel added. "A survivor told Mwatana that, while he had recovered physically, he continued to feel helpless and depressed a year and a half after a U.S. strike injured him and killed his younger cousin. A parent explained how children have continuing anxiety after U.S.
Together with the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, Mwatana for Human Rights submitted to the U.S. military detailed reports of a "Twenty years after the U.S. began its secret and unaccountable killings in Yemen, the U.S. should, at long last, change towards a rights-respecting course."
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