In October 2013, the Pakistani
government revealed that since
2008, civilian casualties made up
only 3 percent of deaths from drone
strikes. Since 2008, there have been
317 drone strikes that killed 2,160
Islamic militants and 67 civilians.
This is far less than previous
government
and
independent
organization calculations of collateral
damage from these attacks.
A statistics published by Bureau of
Investigative Journalism, a U.K.based non-profit, shows below
mentioned causalities.
Country
Pakistan
Yemen
Somalia
Time
Span
2004–
2013
2002–
2013
2007–
2013
Total
Strikes
381
57-67
4-10
Total
killed
2,5373,646
283412
9-30
Civilians
killed
416951
27-71
0-16
Children
killed
168200
5
0
Injured
1,1281,557
72180
2-24
Criticizing drone strikes
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty
International issued a pair of reports
in October, 2013 fiercely criticizing
the secrecy that shrouds the Obama
administration's drone program, and
calling for investigations into the
deaths of drone victims with no
apparent connection to terrorism.
The drone war is under increasing
scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad. A
September, 2013 U.N. report
warned that drone warfare has the
potential to greatly undermine global
stability. In October last year, for the
first time, Congress heard firsthand
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After more than 30 UAV-based
strikes hit civilian homes in
Afghanistan
in
2012,
President Hamid Karzai demanded
that such attacks end, but the
practice continues in areas of
Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia that
are not in war zones. Former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter has criticized
such use of UAVs: "We don't know
how many hundreds of innocent
civilians have been killed in these
attacks...This would have been
unthinkable in previous times."
Reported Casualties
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since 2004 is approximately 32%.
The study reports that 114 reported
UAV-based missile strikes in
northwest Pakistan from 2004 to
present killed between 830 and
1,210 individuals, around 550 to
850 of whom were militants.