The proceeds from the sale of graffiti artist Banksy's
Civilian Drone Strike, 2017 — a work depicting three Predator drones dropping bombs on a framed illustration of a house and stick figures — will go to two humanitarian organisations: Campaign Against Arms Trade and Reprieve.
The work, titled
Civilian Drone Strike, was auctioned alongside contributions by feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls and photomontage artist Peter Kennard, at the five - day Art The Arms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair.
Not exact matches
Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting,
drone strikes against
civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.
Maybe, you know, if we weren't fighting wars in Muslim countries, that is to say, invading them, f *** ing up our
drone strikes to kill
civilians, going on the occasional shooting rampage and body desecration, and supporting Israel.
I'm against the U.S.
drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of
civilians.
What makes this war tactic even more controversial is that U.S. officials rarely mention
civilian casualties as a result of
drone strikes.
Furthermore, the statistics of modern warfare show a far worse ratioof
civilian to combatant deaths, in spite of all the advances in battlefield technology and bluster about «targeted
drone strikes».
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said it was «deeply regrettable» that an RAF
drone strike aimed at ISIS had resulted in a
civilian death.
According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been approximately 399 - 500
drone strikes to - date, and approximately 3,000 individuals have been killed by these
strikes, many of them innocent
civilians, including women and children.
The action sequence that begins the book, involving a
drone strike that might or might not be targeting
civilians as well as terrorists, is taut and tense and reveals a facility for balancing external and internal conflict.