US drone strikes in Pakistan : Strikes and casualties | Trend |

 

areppim chart and statistics of the US drone strikes in Pakistan. By 8 June 2015, the U.S. completed 419 drone strikes in Pakistan, killing from 2,467 to 3,976 persons, of which 423 to 965 civilians, including 172 to 207 children, and causing 1,152 to 1,731 injured. Out of the 419 strikes, 368 or 88% were ordered by president Obama, the 2009 Nobel prize winner for Peace.

By 8 June 2015, the United States completed 419 drone strikes in Pakistan, killing from 2,467 to 3,976 persons, of which 423 to 965 civilians, including 172 to 207 children, and causing 1,152 to 1,731 injured. Out of the 419 strikes, 368 or 88% were ordered by president Obama, the 2009 Nobel prize winner for Peace.

 

US Drone Strikes in Pakistan¹
Casualties 2004-2015

 

Confirmed

Possible

Total US strikes419 
Obama strikes368 
Total reported killed2,4673,976
Civilians reported killed423965
Children reported killed172207
Total reported injured1,1521,731
¹ As of 8 June 2015

 

Sources: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

 U.S. Worldwide Drone War, Status as of May 2015.

 

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The cumulative lines describing the evolution of the United States drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, based on the minimum estimates provided by the data source, give evidence that the CIA-led killing program, accomplished with the silent connivance of the Pakistani authorities, is not an exceptional and temporary effort to take down selected individual enemies, but an ongoing, self-perpetuating operation to kill and injure both combatant insurgents, and civilian bystanders alike, including women and children.

The cumulative lines describing the evolution of the United States drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, based on the minimum estimates provided by the data source, give evidence that the CIA-led killing program, accomplished with the silent connivance of the Pakistani authorities, is not an exceptional and temporary effort to take down selected individual enemies, but an ongoing, self-perpetuating operation to kill and injure both combatant insurgents, and civilian bystanders alike, including women and children. Initiated under the excuse of being the most incisive vehicle to disrupt the chain of command of al-Qaeda and of the Taliban hidden in Pakistan, the drone attacks, instead of losing momentum as it should be expected after the disbanding of al-Qaeda forces, and the assassination of Bin Laden, just kept rolling on, destroying more homes and schools, killing and maiming increasing numbers of people, and becoming a plain slaughtering exercise. U.S. drones have been targeting Pakistan, supposedly a U.S. ally with whom they are not at war, in total disregard of international humanitarian laws. Whatever the specious arguments construed by the legal advisers at Washington, such attacks resist any plausible justification, other than that of being an endeavor to impose on the peoples of the world a creeping, sticky, and murky rule of terror.

Trends of US drone war in Pakistan ¹
2004-2015

Year

Drone strikes

People killed

People injured

TotalCumulativeMinimum people killedMinimum civilians killedMinimum children killedCumulativeMinimum people injuredCumulative
200411622611
20053416542212
20062694907311635
2007511361111522025
200838492525926404146171
20095410347110036875266437
201012823175589231,630351788
2011753063635261,993158946
2012503561991312,1921001,046
201327383109002,301431,089
201425408115002,416441,133
20151141951202,467191,152
Total419 2,467 ²423 ³172 ⁴ 1,152 ⁵6,795
¹ As of 8 June 2015.
² Possibly 3,976.
³ Possibly 965.
⁴ Possibly 207.
⁵ Possibly 1,731.

 

Sources: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

 U.S. Worldwide Drone War, Status as of May 2015.

 

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