TEMOIGNAGE – Nabila, 9 ans, raconte la guerre des drones au Congrès américain | Big Browser
TEMOIGNAGE – Nabila, 9 ans, raconte la guerre des drones au Congrès américain | Big Browser
October 30, 2013
TESTIMONY - Nabila, 9, said the drone war in Congress
"It was very dark, we saw nothing. I heard a cry, I think it was my grandmother, but I did not see her." Tuesday, October 29, this is a 9 year old girl, Nabila Rehman, who spoke to members of the U.S. Congress.
Pakistan came with his father and brother, she is poised to mark America by becoming one of the first victims of the "drone war" to testify in the United States of its effects on the population.
Before parliamentary, Nabila came with one of his drawings. Like all children, she represents his daily life: his house and mountainous landscape. Except that hover above as a constant threat both black silhouettes of U.S. drones.
That day in October 2012, is his grandmother, Momina Bibi, 67, who was killed in a missile sent by a drone while harvested vegetables in his garden. "It looked like it had exploded into pieces, "he told his brother, Zubair, 13, also present at the hearing held by Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson and Robert Greewald, author of a documentary about the drones out Wednesday in the United States.
Error U.S. strike? His son, the father of Nabila, do not believe it.
"Some media have reported that the attack was a car, but there is no road near my mother. Others said it was a house, but the missiles hit a field, not a home, "he told, reports the Telegraph .
"I urge President Obama swiftly (...) to meet the family and explain why their grandmother died," he told Mustafa Qadri working on Pakistan to Amnesty International.
"I prefer cloudy days because the drones do not fly"
In its latest report on the drone attacks in Pakistan, NGOs estimated the number of civilians "were not involved in the fighting and posed no danger to others" to 19 who were killed by drones since January 2012 in the North Waziristan region of northern countries known to be a Taliban stronghold.
Situation become difficult for people to live, as told children Rehman. "Now, I prefer cloudy days because the drones do not fly these days, told Zubair, in comments reported by The Independent . When the sky is blue and bright, they come back, and fear comes with them. Children no longer play a lot and have stopped going to school. Education is no longer possible as the drones prowl over our heads. "
Amnesty, which investigated precisely 9 45 attacks that hit northwestern Pakistan between January 2012 and August 2013, believes that some are similar to "extra-judicial executions and war crimes."
"When he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, Obama made an emotional speech which referred to the centrality of the Christian doctrine of just war theorized by St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, recalled Tuesday Washington Post . Yet the doctrine of just war involves an attack not only be proportionate and necessary, undertaken as a last resort, it avoids unnecessary damage and it has reasonable to put an end to the conflict. On this point chances, it is unclear how the drone attacks may act for peace, or even lead to it. "
