Ban Weaponized Drones! Global Anti-Drone Network
Ban Weaponized Drones! – Statement by the European Section Global Anti-Drone Network
Ban
Weaponized Drones!
We oppose the use of drone
technology for killing, surveillance and repression.
We oppose weaponized and surveillance drones because their deployment lowers the threshold to armed aggression, is used for “targeted” killing of people within and outside warzones – without indictment, trial and conviction, terrorizes the population of the targeted territories, fuels hatred, thereby increasing the cycle of violence, leads to the development of autonomous kille robots, thereby making even more horrifying wars likely, initiates a new round in the arms race.
We demand that all governments cease the production and acquisition of armed drones, as well as their research and development, and work towards a worldwide ban of these weapons.
Endorsed by:
Althaler,
Birgit – Palestine Solidarity Basel,
Switzerland
Aune, Björn – Boycott, Sanctions,
Divestment (BDS) Campaign Berlin, Germany
Baloch,
Farooq – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI),
Germany
Benjamin, Medea - Code Pink
(Co-¬Founder), USA
Björkmann, Rosie – Women
for Peace, Sweden
Bosma, Geert – Vredes
Informatie Centrum (Staff) & War Resisters Intl. (WRI),
Netherlands
Braun, Reiner – Intl. Association of
Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA – Executive
Director),Germany
Cole, Chris – Drone Wars UK
(Founder) & Drone Campaign Network (Convener), United
Kingdom
Dubrow, Niels – Staff Assistant to Dr.
Ute Finckh-Krämer, Member of Bundestag (SPD),
Germany
Finckh-Krämer, Ute – Member of
Bundestag (MdB), Social Democratic Party (SPD) & Stiftung
Friedensbildung, Germany
Fredegård, Anita –
Women for Peace, Sweden
Fuchs, Barbara – attac &
Friedensratschlag, Germany
Fuchs-Kittowski, Klaus
– Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social
Responsibility (FIfF), Germany
Ghannam, Doris –
Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment (BDS) Campaign Berlin,
Germany
Hunko, Andrej – Member of Bundestag
(MdB) & of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,
DIE LINKE (the Left)
Hugler, Helmut – Staff
Assistant to Dr. Ute Finckh-Krämer, Member of Bundestag
(SPD), Germany
Javaid, Tariq – Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), Germany
Kachel, Thomas –
Parliamentary Advisor on Peace and Security Issues, DIE
LINKE (the Left) in the Bundestag, Germany
Käss,
Helmut – Intl. Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW), Germany
Krutsch, Elfriede –
Intl. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW),
Germany
Lammerent, Hans – Vredesactie Peace
Movement (former Chair), Belgium
Lorentz,
Charlotte – Staff Assistant to Angieszka Brugger,
Member of the Bundestag, Green parliamentary group,
Germany
Martensson, Ingela – Women for Peace &
former Member of the parliament (Liberal Party),
Sweden
Mudassir, Ali – Pakistan
Tehreek-¬e-¬Insaaf (PTI), Germany
Müller-Reiss,
Brunhild – Drone Campaign & Peace Office Hannover &
War Resisters Intl. (DFG-VK in WRI), Germany
Nineham,
Chris – Stop the War Coalition (StWC -Vice Chair),
United Kingdom
Norberg, Agneta – Global Network
Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space & Women for
Peace, Sweden
Paulini, Peter – Stiftung
Friedensbildung (Foundation for Peacemaking),
Germany
Pflüger, Tobias – Drone Campaign &
Info. Agency on Militarisation (IMI, Founder) & former MEP
(DIE LINKE), Germany
Rassbach, Elsa – Code Pink
& Drone Campaign & War Resisters Intl. (DFG-VK in WRI,
Board), USA/Germany
Schoeppe, Florian – Staff
Assistant to Katja Keul, Membe of the Bundestag, Green
parliamentary group, Germany
Steffen, Jens-Peter
– Intl. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(IPPNW), Staff Adviser on Peace Issues),
Germany
Stryk, Lydia – Playwright,
USA/Germany
Wijnberg, J.M.T. (Miek) –
Burgerrechtenvereniging Vrijbit (President),
Netherlands
Wimmersperg, Laura – Drone Campaign
& Peace Coordination Berlin (Speaker), Germany
Wirl,
Lucas – ICC No to NATO (Co-Chair) & Intl. Network
Engineers & Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES),
Germany
ENDS