US killer drone
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has called for a global freeze on the use of drones as the US killer drone strikes continue to take innocent lives in several countries.
The UNHRC report published on May 2 seeks a moratorium on the "testing, production, assembly, transfer, acquisition, deployment and use" of fully or semi-autonomous weapons including drones and robots until an international forum can establish rules for their use. The use of drones violates international law, the report stated.
Christof Heyns, a South African professor of human rights law and author of the report, said the United States, the UK and the Israeli regime in particular have developed killer robots dubbed Lethal Autonomous Robotics (LAR) that can attack targets without any human input.
"Decisions over life and death in armed conflict may require compassion and intuition. Humans - while they are fallible - at least might possess these qualities, whereas robots definitely do not. [Robots] should not have the power of life and death over human beings," Heyns stated.
The UNHRC report was drafted after strong protests by several countries including Russia, China and Pakistan.
The United States carries out drone strikes on Pakistan's tribal regions almost regularly with Washington claiming that militants are the targets. However, casualty figures clearly indicate that civilians are the main victims.
The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism said in a report in February that the United States has carried out more than 360 assassination drone attacks in Pakistan since 2004, killing nearly 3,500 people.
Washington has also been criticized for its drone strikes in Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen.
The Israeli regime also violates the airspace of Lebanon on an almost daily basis using its aircraft including spy drones.
The findings of the UNHRC report have been scheduled for debate at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on May 29.
This is good news. I'd like to see them put a moratorium on chemtrails and GMOS, next.
But I'm a little confused. I thought the UN was just a front for a one world government agenda. Isn't the UN another one of the ominous alphabet groups organized by the power elite?
Well we saw what depending on human input did with Germany, Cambodia etc. Why not try going with robots? Maybe they'll show more compassion than say Nazis or some of the big boys on Wall Street...or Congress for that matter. Nah-just kidding. Warfare is declining worldwide gradually gradually. And one of the good things coming from so many Americans buying guns-they say their going to aim at drones now too.
I just stumbled on this piece of a news story on youtube,,,and chemtails came to mind,,, http://youtu.be/82W3XYs4jjU These japanese scientists are using beryium and strontium to create "touchable" holographs. These are two of the major compnents used in chemtrails,,If I remember correctly,,,so an alarm went off. All I can think of is that post here last year about the possibility of haarp projecting these giant images in the sky to instill fear,,, just go into the video about 30 seconds or so,it is a short news story from Asia News