On December 14th 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, a well-to-do white town 100 km north of New York, 20 schoolchildren were gunned down. Within hours President Obama appeared on television:

The majority of those who died today were children – beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old. They had their entire lives ahead of them – birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.

For the first time since his grandmother passed away four years ago, he teared up in public.

Two days later he named each one at the vigil:

Charlotte

Daniel

Olivia

Josephine

Ana

Dylan

Madeleine

Catherine

Chase

Jesse

James

Grace

Emilie

Jack

Noah

Caroline

Jessica

Benjamin

Avielle

Allison

He has yet to name or publicly tear up over the 96 (or more) children he has killed with his drones and cruise missiles – equal to almost five Newtowns. Killings which the United Nations calls “indiscriminate” and which his own computers call “bug splat”. He kills whoever he likes. Even Americans. He answers to no one.

No. One.

He uses drones to send Hellfire missiles not just at military targets but at houses, schools, restaurants and bakeries. He sends them during Ramadan. He sends them during funerals. He sends them after you have prayed. He sends them after you protest against drones. He sends them when you are with your grandmother. He sends them if you come to help the dying and wounded from the first missile, even if it is your father, mother, sister, brother, cousin.

Obama does not publicly name the children he has killed. Apparently because their lives do not matter to him. Apparently because they are not beautiful. Apparently because they do not have birthdays. Apparently because they are not Real People Whose Lives Matter. Apparently because they are not well-to-do White American children.

Fortunately, about half the list of children Obama has killed can be pieced together from news reports:

date: name, age, nationality

2009-01-23: Azaz-ur-Rehman, 14, Pakistani

2009-02-14: Noor Syed, 8, Pakistani

2009-08-11: Ibad Ullah, teenager, Pakistani

2009-08-11: Mohammad Arif, teenager, Pakistani

2009-08-11: Abdul Qadeer, teenager, Pakistani

2009-08-11: Hazrat Ali, teenager, Pakistani

2009-08-21: Syed Wali Shah, 7, Pakistani

2009-08-21: Naeemullah,?, Pakistani

2009-08-21: Faizullah,?, Pakistani

2009-08-21: Rahima,?, Pakistani

2009-08-21: Shaista,?, Pakistani

2009-11-20: Sakeenullah, 15, Pakistani

2009-12-31: Zaenullah Khan, 17, Pakistani

2009-12-17: Nasser Mohammed Nasser, 6, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Arwa Mohammed Nasser, 4, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Fatima Mohammed Nasser, 2, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser, 9, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser, 7, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser, 5, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser, 4, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 9, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 4, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye, 3, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye, 1, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye, 6, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye, 4, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye, 15, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh, 3, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 9, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 4, Yemeni

2009-12-17: Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed, 2, Yemeni

2010-01-03: Wajid Noor, 9, Pakistani

2010-01-08: Ayeesha, 3, Pakistani

2010-02-24: Naila, 10, Pakistani

2010-05-21: Fatima, ?, Pakistani

2010-05-21: Nisar, ?, Pakistani

2010-05-21: Naeem Khan, ?, Pakistani

2010-10-18: Naeem Ullah, 10, Pakistani

2011-06-15: Shahzada, ?, Pakistani

2011-10-14: Abdel-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki, 16, American

2011-10-31: Tariq Aziz, 16, Pakistani

2011-10-31: Waheed, ?, Pakistani

2012-08-21: Osama Haqqani, 13, Pakistani

2012-09-02: Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari, 13, Yemeni

2012-09-02: Daolah Nasser, 10, Yemeni

2012-09-02: AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout, 12, Yemeni

Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Drone Data

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