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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)
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