“By giving a face to the victims of drone strikes abroad, a powerful new art project is forcing U.S. drone pilots and policy makers to ponder the deadly consequences of one of America’s key counterterrorism programs.

Two weeks ago, artists gathered in a rural community of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to unveil a gigantic portrait of a local child whose parents and siblings were allegedly killed by missiles fired from a U.S. drone.

The installation can be seen from the cameras of drones that are known to fly over the region and is called #NotABugSplat, in reference to the slang used by the military for a man killed in a drone strike.”* Desi Doyen (Green News Report), John Iadarola (TYT University) and Jayar Jackson break it down.

*Read more here from Nick Robins-Early / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/drone-art-project_n_5104999.html