The proliferation of easy-to-obtain drones is fuelling conflicts, increasing civilian casualties and filling the skies with new dangers
When they hear an ominous buzz that sounds like a swarm of angry bees, the people of northern Ethiopia run for cover. They know a drone attack is beginning again.
Schools, markets, weddings, funerals and civilian vehicles have all been hit by poorly targeted drone strikes, usually with little explanation, or later acknowledged as mistakes. By some estimates, thousands of African civilians have been killed by UAVs in the past three years. “Some of us are afraid to gather in groups now because our loved ones were in a group when they were killed,” Wolde said.
In Burkina Faso, the national army deployed Turkish-made UAVs in three strikes that killed at least 60 civilians at a funeral and two crowded markets between August and November of last year, Human Rights Watch said. “The drone strikes violated laws-of-war prohibitions against attacks that do not discriminate between civilians and military targets and were apparent war crimes,” it said in a report in January.
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