Methodists consider the ethics of drone attacks

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 @ 00:59

by a staff reporter

THE Methodist Church has called on the Government to exert pressure on the United States to ban its drone attacks on terrorist targets.

A report to the Methodist Conference last week, in Plymouth, said that between 1717 and 2680 people had been killed by US drone attacks since 2004. It is not known how many of these were innocent civilians.

Drones - unmanned aircraft - are used to carry out targeted attacks on terrorist suspects, most frequently in ...

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