On April 1st, a group of activists and families of drone victims came together to announce the establishment of the first Yemeni anti-drone organization. The National Organization for Drone Victims aims to criminalize drone strikes as to abolish them and thus prevent the military and any other governmental agency form using such technology against Islamic radicalism.
Mohammed Ali al-Qwali, a Yemeni anti-drone activist announced on Tuesday, “Today, we launch the start of this new organization which will be the starting point for us to get justice and to take legal measures on a national and international scale against anyone who is aiding these crimes.”
Such comments came only days after President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi reaffirmed his support of drones as strategic weapons against terror in Yemen.
Although President Hadi and the United States of America have long made clear that in their view drones were still Yemen’s best chance against al-Qaeda since boots on the ground were not a feasible option, Yemenis have grown increasingly resentful of drone strikes. While most Yemenis said to be supportive of President Hadi’s efforts against al-Qaeda, they warned the killing and maiming of civilian populations could never be dismissed as acceptable losses.
Since 2012, when US President Barack Obama resumed his drone campaign in Yemen in response to a spike in terror activities dozens of innocent civilians, included women and children have perished as a direct result of drones. Back in December 2013, an entire wedding convoy was wiped out in a US-led drone strike as a result of bad intelligence. It is such losses Yemenis are unwilling to file under collateral damage.
According to the National Organization for Drones Victims, an estimated 13 US-led drone operations took place in the month of March alone, killing over 20 Yemenis.
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