NAMING THE DEAD: Journalists Exposing Civilian Victims of US Drone Attacks
Journalists Exposing Civilian Victims of US Drone Attacks Need Help to Expand Project
Media project hopes to use crowd-funding appeal to help raise money for the next stage of vital project
If the world is to accurately understand the destruction being caused by US drone attacks in Pakistan (and elsewhere), someone must identify and 'name the dead,' says the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).
On Monday the independent media outlet released a new video designed to highlight their ongoing 'Naming the Dead' project and help raise funds so that their award-winning investigative work can continue.
As many note—in addition to the ultimate questions of legality and morality—it is the deeply secretive nature of the US drone and targeted killing campaigns that keeps the world in the dark about how the global superpower justifies and operates such clandestine and lethal actions.
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If the world is to accurately understand the destruction being caused by US drone attacks in Pakistan (and elsewhere), someone must identify and 'name the dead,' says the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).
On Monday the independent media outlet released a new video designed to highlight their ongoing 'Naming the Dead' project and help raise funds so that their award-winning investigative work can continue.
As many note—in addition to the ultimate questions of legality and morality—it is the deeply secretive nature of the US drone and targeted killing campaigns that keeps the world in the dark about how the global superpower justifies and operates such clandestine and lethal actions.
"All we have is the US government saying trust us, these are bad guys we are killing, trust us," says Jennifer Gibson in the video. A staff attorney with human rights group Reprieve, she continues, "We can’t start to get to the bottom of who is being killed until we know the names of those who are being killed.’
As fights in the US courts and Congress attempt to pry open the internal secrets of the Obama administration's program, it has remained up to independent media outlets and human rights groups to fill in the knowledge gaps by investigating the human and social impact the drone strikes have had on the populations forced to live with the buzz of drones overhead and the fear of missile attacks that could come at any moment.
In Pakistan, where the brunt of US drone bombings have taken place in recent years, it is the UK-based TBIJ that has perhaps pushed hardest to collect on the ground reports about the victims and the widespread and negative impact the missile attacks have had on the broader communities in the remote sections of Pakistan where they most frequently occur.
Earlier this year, following the launch of the new investigation series, TBIJ received support from the Freedom of the Press Foundation for their work.
"In order to do this work, we are raising funds so we can send journalists into northern Pakistan to talk to families, talk to government agencies, hospitals, even militant groups," says TBIJ deputy editor Rachel Oldroyd.
As part of their appeal, the group said:
So far, our monitoring of CIA drone strikes has recorded at least 2,537 people reported to have been killed by strikes in Pakistan. But fewer than 20% of those killed have been named. Our new Naming the Dead project aims to identify as many as possible of the remainder, whether civilian or militant.
To start with, we will publish all the names and information we have collected so far. But we want to build on this, by identifying as many of the other victims as possible. Naming the Dead will expand the transparency that the Bureau has already brought to this conflict, a factor campaign groups argue is extremely important.
As part of the campaign to raise funds—of which the new video release is a part—the group plans to use crowd-sourcing methods to maintain and expand their 'Naming the Dead' project. They also hope that people will support their work by visiting their Facebook page, sharing the new interactive graphic based on their work, and contributing financially.
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the unintended consequences of fighting wars with drones rather than have more body bags come home to America will cause what you say.
After all the billions spent on Iraq (and much of it unaccounted for) they do the drones...on the cheap and we don't see much of the dead "over there.". 
because it does:
Plus there are "other drones" from other countries...and it's a free-for-all as to which country get's it's DRONES GOING...that could have some strange SHIT going forward.
No longer need Soldiers on the Ground...just have DRONE WARS...
It's aways away...but not so far that it wouldn't take more than a year for "Star Wars Drones" and the Collateral Damage from it that will NOT BE LISTED...anywhere....anywhere..
We have to think about a World that will be for us to all live in....
Tech Tracking, Drone Targeting.......and WHO will CATALOGUE the DEATHS?
It's a New Form of War...and the LAWS that Govern HUMAN RIGHTS are not being kept up with because the TECHNOLOGY is Moving SO FAST AND FURIOUS!
WHERE ARE OUR SOVEREIGN CITIZEN PROTECTIONS? 
terraist wherever in the world that terraist might happen to be at the moment and further realize the US will take all due care to hold collateral damage down to an acceptable level for we are the good guys who wear the white hats and its a mean, hard, cruel world out there. 
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But...It is FALSE...and some Digging all over would reveal that.
their faces as to imply the sarcasm thingy. In reality, luckily or sadly the US, a superpower (the winner), can do to others in the post-WWII era what others (losers) would have been hanged for in WWII. This, imo, continues to define us as a nation and a people, and it's not very pretty imo. One recent poll indicated 64% of Americans are thirsting for war with Iran although a war of aggression is the ultimate war crime under international conventions. In post WWII, we have done what was necessary to stem the spread of godless communism, toppled any number of governments that leaned to the left or not far enough to the right, detonated 100s (?) of nuclear devices impervious to their impact on mother earth, and more recently have gone to a permanent worldwide war on the ubiquitous terra featuring junior's war of aggression imo in Iraq. 
