US must stop assassination drone strikes.

The United States must stop its assassination drone strikes and killing of innocent civilians, which are in breach of international law, a political analyst tells Press TV.

“In my mind and understanding of the law, everyone who is being killed in an illegal military operation is innocent civilian and so they are all war crimes and they should all be stopped, but the very least, should be compensated,” Leah Bolger, with the Veterans for Peace organization, said in an interview with Press TV.

She added that the US government is interested in drones because they will not put the lives of American people at risk while attacks by unmanned aerial vehicle seem to be effective at killing people that it wants to kill.

“The fact is that the combat drones…being used by the United States are violating international law, and not just in Afghanistan, but in Pakistan and Yemen and every life that is taken is a war crime,” the commentator pointed out.

She expressed concern over the killing of people including the Afghans, the Somalis, the Yemenis, and the Pakistanis by the American government and said little attention is being paid to these innocent civilians who are “trying to go about their daily business.”

The US carries out targeted killings through drone strikes in several Muslim nations such as Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia.

Washington claims the targets of the drone attacks are militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years.

The United Nations and several human rights organizations have identified the US as the world’s number one user of “targeted killings,” largely due to its drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.