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Tariq Aziz (1995-2012) - this courageous young boy is known very little in Pakistan. Why don't you know him? Because he couldn't drift a car down a mountain? Sad...so I'll tell you his story, in an attempt to wake your feeble minds up. Tariq Aziz and his 12-year old cousin Waheed Khan were murdered in a US terror drone strike in the Miranshah area North Waziristan one week after the anti-drone dharna lead by PTI and Human Rights Activists in 2012. Prior to his murder, 16-year old Tariq Aziz came to Islamabad and helped the Bureau of Investigative Journalism document civilian casualties caused by drone strikes. He spoke to numerous journalists and investigative reporters about the crimes happening in his native Waziristan. Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said: "I met this lad Tariq last week, and he was no more a terrorist than my mother". With his help, and the help of countless others, a moving documentary directed by US filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation were able to highlight the plight of innocent drone victims and exposed the blatant lies of the US administration about the precision and efficacy of drone attacks. The documentary by Greenwald intersperses in-depth interviews with never-before-seen footage from the tribal regions in Pakistan to humanise those who have been impacted by US drone terror. This footage, alongside interviews with Pakistani drone survivors, described the brutal reality of drone attacks ordered during the Obama Administration. The filmmaker was supported in Pakistan by Reprieve and their counsel, Shahzad Akbar, a human rights lawyer currently representing the families of drone victims. Less than a few days after this, on his way back home to his village, a drone murdered him and his cousin. Did anybody care? No, because Tariq couldn't drift a car down a mountain. No...because in your mind, the blood of your own people is cheap, but the blood of a "gora" is worth much more. This is the reality of the Muslim world. No doubt, RIP Paul Walker, he was just as human as anybody else. But don't forget RIP Tariq Aziz and RIP to the thousands of others who have been savagely murdered by drones and TTP in our great country. No FB pages for them? No tweets? No status updates? At least shed a tear? No...this is the Muslim World defined in a nutshell.
