Based on extensive interviews with victims and witnesses, Living Under Drones1 decisively refutes US propaganda claims that drones are "precision weapons" capable of executing "surgical strikes" -- i.e., targeted assassinations -- while minimizing civilian casualties. In this respect the report breaks little new ground, but it is an important addition to already overwhelming evidence that armed drones have caused many thousands of civilian deaths.2What is groundbreaking is the report's portrayal of the social devastation wrought by drone attacks. The research shows that, in addition to the killing and maiming of individual civilians, drone warfare has destroyed the wellbeing of an entire people, causing widespread economic hardship, mental illness, political turmoil, and social dislocation.
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