Infographie : la guerre des drones américains au Yémen et au Pakistan - ÉTATS-UNIS - FRANCE 24

Infographie : la guerre des drones américains au Yémen et au Pakistan - ÉTATS-UNIS - FRANCE 24

Despite the commitment Obama regulate the use of drones in Yemen and Pakistan, NGOs regularly denounce the "extra-judicial killings" committed by these weapons. Review of human losses since 2002 by the secret war. By FRANCE 24 (text)   Military strikes that the United States operates in more than a decade Yemeni and Pakistani territory in the framework of the fight against terrorism is one of the most opaque aspects of foreign policy of the Obama administration. Regularly pinned by groups of human rights who bemoan the lack of transparency and legal framework of this secret war, yet Washington is reluctant to deliver accurate information about these attacks, in most cases, by unmanned aircraft, better known as the "drone". In May, President Barack Obama, however, indicated that the use of these controversial devices was "severely circumscribed." According to the U.S. President, the attacks should only intervene in cases of imminent threat and only if the suspect can not be captured any other way. "The United States will not resort to strikes when we have the ability to capture terrorists. Our preference is always to capture, interrogate and prosecute them," had said the Head of State .