US Drone Summit highlights growing use

The gathering attended by experts and journalists, is hosted by CODEPINK, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Reprieve.

In the course of the event, lawyers representing Pakistani drone-strike victims and journalists investigating the attacks shared their experiences of these events in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

According to the organizers, US assassination drone strikes have killed an estimated 3,000 people, including hundreds of civilians, in covert drone missions in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.

“As the Obama Administration expands its use of killer drones around the world, so must we increase our demands for transparency and accountability” said Maria LaHood, a Senior Staff Attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who spoke at the summit.

Drones are reportedly being also deployed within the US by border security and law enforcement agencies. Predator drones deployed by Customs and Border Protection search for immigrants and drugs on the northern and southern borders, while metropolitan police and county sheriffs are acquiring smaller drones for use in their SWAT operations.

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