title: No combat drones! date: 2013-03-24 21:19:00 updated: 2013-03-24 22:07:01 author: 46halbe tags: update, pressemitteilung, drones Appeal against combat drones, please support. <!-- TEASER_END --> The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), together with over eighty NGOs and initiatives, speaks out against the use of combat drones and against "targeted" killings. See [drohnen-kampagne.de](http://www.drohnen-kampagne.de/) for more information and online support. \[3\] **Appeal**: No combat drones! **We oppose establishing drone technology for combat, surveillance and oppression.** Currently the German government seems determined to equip the Bundeswehr with armed unmanned aerial vehicles (combat drones). **We oppose combat drones because their deployment** - lowers further the threshold to armed aggression, - signifies “targeted” killing of people within and outside warzones – without indictment, trial and conviction, - terrorizes the population of the targeted territory, signifying a threat to life and limb, - encourages the development of autonomous killer robots, thereby making more horrifying wars likely, - initiates a new round in the arms race. **We demand that the German government and parliament** - abandon the aberration of acquisition and production of armed drones, as well as their research and development, and - become engaged for a worldwide ban, as well as an international proscription of these weapons. **Links**: \[1\] Supporters: <http://drohnen-kampagne.de/appell-keine-kampfdrohnen/unterstutzergruppen/> \[2\] English version: <http://drohnen-kampagne.de/files/2013/03/Appeal-No-Combat-Drones.pdf> \[3\] Online support: [http://drohnen-kampagne.de/online-unterstutzung/](http://drohnen-kampagne.de/online-unterstutzung)