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> there are children in Yemen right now who are afraid of blue skies. On that point, I would encourage everyone to read this article and watch the accompanying
by 3131s 10y ago
> there are children in Yemen right now who are afraid of blue skies.
On that point, I would encourage everyone to read this article and watch the accompanying video:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-yemeni-teenager-mohammed-tuaiman-death-cia-strike https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-y...
The Yemeni boy featured, whose father and older brother were killed already in US drone strikes, is quoted as saying that children in his village have nightmares of the drones. The boy himself was killed in a drone strike just two weeks after the interview.
- baursak 10y agoKiller robots trawling the skies and bringing nightmares to children. If that's not the purest depiction of terrorism, I don't know what is.