The protest at Friends House. Photo: Trish Carn.
Drone protest at Friends House
Friends protested the use of armed drones as part of Quaker Week
Friends are marking Quaker Week by protesting against the use of military drones.
On Monday 5 October, approximately twenty Friends held a Meeting for Worship by a ‘drone shadow’, a simple art installation, in the garden of Friends House.
Britain Yearly Meeting Quaker Peace & Social Witness peace and disarmament programme manager Sam Walton said: ‘Believing that peace between people and nations cannot be furthered by military might, Quakers oppose the use of drones as an instrument of violence.
‘Quakers in Britain are alarmed by the proliferation of military drones and the resulting deaths and civilian casualties. We remind the international community that through their unrestricted use, armed drones undermine international law. By causing devastation around the world, drones lead to fear, bitterness and further violence. In cheapening killing, armed drones cheapen human life.’
Royal Air Force pilots have flown armed drones in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria.
