3 months ago - 219 notesA group of Pakistanis met in Islamabad late last month to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. One of the attendees was a 16-year-old boy named Tariq Aziz, who had volunteered to learn photography to begin documenting drone strikes near his home. Within 72 hours of the meeting, Aziz was killed in a U.S. drone strike. His 12-year-old cousin was also killed in the Oct. 31 attack. “People were aware of the threat to them. Yet they volunteered—Tariq, in particular, because he, at his age in that remote community, was familiar with computers, was excited about the idea of being able to document the civilian casualties,” says reporter Pratap Chatterjee, who met Aziz days before he was killed.
Bet many American citizens don’t know about this; it’s not even recent but it remains important to those who suffer, to those who live in this land. It’s easy to ignore a 16-year-old Pakistani’s death by a drone when your government’s shooting them in his country.

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U.S. Drone Kills 16-Year-Old Pakistani Boy Days After He Attends Anti-Drone Organizing Meeting
Posted on Wednesday 29 February 2012.
Tagged as: I can't stand behind this.,
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