A giant art installation targets predator drone operators

[Leader]

In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed.

To challenge this insensitivity as well as raise awareness of civilian casualties, an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan, where drone attacks regularly occur. Now, when viewed by a drone camera, what an operator sees on his screen is not an anonymous dot on the landscape, but an innocent child victim’s face.

The installation is also designed to be captured by satellites in order to make it a permanent part of the landscape on online mapping sites.

The project is a collaboration of artists who made use of the French artist JR’s ‘Inside Out’ movement. Reprieve/Foundation for Fundamental Rights helped launch the effort which has been released with the hashtag #NotABugSplat

The child featured in the poster is nameless, but according to FFR, lost both her parents and two young siblings in a drone attack.

The group of artists traveled inside KPK province and, with the assistance of highly enthusiastic locals, unrolled the poster amongst mud huts and farms. It is their hope that this will create empathy and introspection amongst drone operators, and will create dialogue amongst policy makers, eventually leading to decisions that will save innocent lives.




hope this can instill some remorse in drone operators... quit your criminal jobs...

#NotABugSplat | A giant art installation project that targets predator drone operators sitting thousands of miles away who refer to kills as BugSplats. Now they’ll see a child’s face instead.

 

[dawn_news]

Drones has been stopped for months now but did terrorism stop? Nope, you guys are hypocrates. As long as childrens are dying in hands of terrorists its ok. At least drones target terrorists while terrorists only target children and innocents.

 

[VCheng]

The drones do not attack children. They attack the terrorists hiding among them. Get rid of the terrorists and the drones will go away.

 

[airmarshal]

#NotABugSplat big twitter trend today! Great job.

 

[faeza]

Drones has been stopped for months now but did terrorism stop? Nope, you guys are hypocrates. As long as childrens are dying in hands of terrorists its ok. At least drones target terrorists while terrorists only target children and innocents.

Are you implying that drones shouldnt be stopped?

 

[Esc8781]

Nope, they won't quit their 'criminal' job.

 

[VCheng]

Nope, they won't quit their 'criminal' job.

All by mutual consent, nothing criminal when there are no realistic alternatives:

Bush, Musharraf struck deal for drone strikes: NYT - thenews.com.pk

"US President Bush and his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf had a deal allowing drone strikes in the tribal areas as a covert operation, run by the CIA, The New York Times reported on Sunday."

 

[Leader]

#NotABugSplat big twitter trend today! Great job.

Yup. slap on murderers and their supporters all over the world !!

especially after UN stand against criminal drone attacks.

 

[airmarshal]

The so-called liberal and secular parties are only there to create noise and look distinct only because of their inaction. Its PTI which has done practical steps to stop drones, while not in power or being in power just as a provincial govt.

 

[Leader]

The so-called liberal and secular parties are only there to create noise and look distinct only because of their inaction. Its PTI which has done practical steps to stop drones, while not in power or being in power just as a provincial govt.

every sane segment of the society is against drones. its criminal by virtue of its method.

 

[Esc8781]

Drones has been stopped for months now but did terrorism stop? Nope, you guys are hypocrates. As long as childrens are dying in hands of terrorists its ok. At least drones target terrorists while terrorists only target children and innocents.

Yep. When Terrorists kill women and children, they have no value, and no one gives a shit, but when the US does it by accident suddenly they have value.

 

[dawn_news]

Are you implying that drones shouldnt be stopped?

Are you implying that drones shouldnt be stopped?

If you didnt already notice drones has been stopped for months. Now even PTI doesnt cry about drones and instead have invented other excuses to explain on going terrorism. And TTP has made clear stopping drones was just one of their demand. The actual demand and which matter is impose sharia and conquer Islamabad.

Yes this is rediculous but in process of their wet dreamings they have killed thousands of childrens. Many times more then drones ever will.

 

[rockstar08]

Taliban used drones to motivate peoples to fight ..... if they have balls than come out from Pu$$y's of their wives and fight like man

 

[faeza]

If you didnt already notice drones has been stopped for months. Now even PTI doesnt cry about drones and instead have invented other excuses to explain on going terrorism. And TTP has made clear stopping drones was just one of their demand. The actual demand and which matter is impose sharia and conquer Islamabad.

Yes this is rediculous but in process of their wet dreamings they have killed thousands of childrens. Many times more then drones ever will.

If the talibaan are doing so doesnt mean we have to contribute to the figure , each innocent life is of equal value.
Its just slap on the face to our political drawbacks and the beauty part is that the politicians are secretly invovled because such bold actions cannot be carried out without the concurrence of our beloved politicians (US officials say so too) and the attacks are labelled as a "necessary evil" no one is considering the pain we are putting families through .
And so far the seizure of drones is concerned they have not been stopped they have been "limited " like last time in 2011 for six weeks no drones , then it was back to the routine work.

And take over islamabad? Lol.

 

[dawn_news]

If the talibaan are doing so doesnt mean we have to contribute to the figure , each innocent life is of equal value.
Its just slap on the face to our political drawbacks and the beauty part is that the politicians are secretly invovled because such bold actions cannot be carried out without the concurrence of our beloved politicians (US officials say so too) and the attacks are labelled as a "necessary evil" no one is considering the pain we are putting families through .
And so far the seizure of drones is concerned they have not been stopped they have been "limited " like last time in 2011 for six weeks no drones , then it was back to the routine work.

And take over islamabad? Lol.

Yes take over Islamabad sound rediculous but thats what they believe, and no one can stop them for dreaming. Killing terrorists with drones is more logical then sending army there. Element of surprise is gone and innocents suffer in process. With drones or F-16 only terrorists are targetted.

You can't send army to kill few terrorists here and there.