Former US drone operator Brandon Bryant says that he risks being killed by the US government if he decides to return to his country.
“They could kill me if they want to, but when I go back home, I’m homeless, like I’m a disabled homeless veteran. I have no income. I’m nothing,” he told in an exclusive interview with Press TV.
Bryant, who has operated drones from different US bases and flown them over several countries, attended a panel debate in Oslo which was followed by an exclusive pre-screening of a documentary about US drones.
The Norwegian-produced documentary, DRONE, is the latest film on the US covert drone war and will be released this month.
The documentary, which features Bryant and a human rights lawyer from Pakistan, shows how the US Army uses video games as tools to recruit young people at gaming conventions.
For about a decade, the United States has been running assassination drone programs in several countries.
The assassination drone strikes often result in civilian casualties.
Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar is representing families of drone victims and survivors.
Akbar has filed charges of war crimes against the Central Intelligence Agency and has succeeded in getting a Pakistani court to rule the CIA drone strikes as illegal.
The US administration claims that its unmanned aircraft attacks target al-Qaeda militants, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned airstrikes.
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