US drone strikes from 2010-2020 killed up to 2,000 civilians and 500 children

Evidence

The total civilian casualty rate of these attacks is not known, because the Trump administration placed restrictions on the reporting of these figures. The corporate media have reported on some of the worst examples, like the bombing of a wedding party in Yemen that killed twenty people and wounded dozens of others, including the groom. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has tracked the drone wars in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia from 2010 to 2020, reports that there were 14,000 strikes, killing between 8,000 and 9,000 people. Among those were as many as 2,000 civilians and close to 500 children. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 531 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This list sometimes included US citizens like the Yemeni-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. In the same drone strike that killed al-Awlaki, his sixteen-year-old son Abdulrahman was also executed without as much as a trial or the presentation of evidence in a court of law. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 508 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The constitutional and moral issues of drone strikes were highlighted with the controversial drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son in Yemen. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 467 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone strikes killed up to 9,000 people including 2,000 civilians and 500 children. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 531; The United States killed an American citizen and his son by drone in Yemen — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 467; US drone strikes executed a US citizen and his sixteen-year-old son without trial — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508

Broader Connections

• Drone strikes killed up to 9,000 people including 2,000 civilians and 500 children. #corroborates (0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 531
• The United States killed an American citizen and his son by drone in Yemen #exemplifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 467
• US drone strikes executed a US citizen and his sixteen-year-old son without trial #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 508