title: No combat drones!
date: 2013-03-24 21:19:00 
updated: 2013-03-24 22:07:01 
author: 46halbe
tags: update, pressemitteilung, drones

Appeal against combat drones, please support.

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The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), together with over eighty NGOs and
initiatives, speaks out against the use of combat drones and against
"targeted" killings.

See [drohnen-kampagne.de](http://www.drohnen-kampagne.de/) for more
information and online support. \[3\]

 

**Appeal**:

 

No combat drones!

**We oppose establishing drone technology for combat, surveillance and
oppression.**

Currently the German government seems determined to equip the Bundeswehr
with armed unmanned aerial vehicles (combat drones).

**We oppose combat drones because their deployment**

-   lowers further the threshold to armed aggression,
-   signifies “targeted” killing of people within and outside warzones –
    without indictment, trial and conviction,
-   terrorizes the population of the targeted territory, signifying a
    threat to life and limb,
-   encourages the development of autonomous killer robots, thereby
    making more horrifying wars likely,
-   initiates a new round in the arms race.

**We demand that the German government and parliament**

-   abandon the aberration of acquisition and production of armed
    drones, as well as their research and development, and
-   become engaged for a worldwide ban, as well as an international
    proscription of these weapons.

 

**Links**:

\[1\]
Supporters: <http://drohnen-kampagne.de/appell-keine-kampfdrohnen/unterstutzergruppen/>

\[2\] English version:
<http://drohnen-kampagne.de/files/2013/03/Appeal-No-Combat-Drones.pdf>

\[3\] Online support:
[http://drohnen-kampagne.de/online-unterstutzung/](http://drohnen-kampagne.de/online-unterstutzung)