Posted on 01/03/2020 6:03:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, said on Thursday night that the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian terrorist mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a violation of international law.
The U.N. has been oddly quiet about Soleimani’s violations of international law, including activities that indisputably violated U.N. sanctions.
“The targeted killings of Qasem Soleiman and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis are most likely unlawful and violate international human rights law: Outside the context of active hostilities, the use of drones or other means for targeted killing is almost never likely to be legal,” Callamard wrote on Twitter.
She proceeded to lay out an impossibly stringent standard for preventive action that becomes grotesquely amusing when measured against Soleimani’s malign activities, not least his involvement in an undisputed act of war against the United States, the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad last week:
To be justified under international human rights law, intentionally lethal or potentially lethal force can only be used where strictly necessary to protect against an imminent threat to life.
In other words, whoever targeted these two men would need to demonstrate that the persons targeted constitute(d) an imminent threat to others. An individual’s past involvement in “terrorist” attacks is not sufficient to make his targeting for killing lawful.
Furthermore, drone killing of anyone other than the target (family members or others in the vicinity, for example) would be an arbitrary deprivation of life under human rights law and could result in State responsibility and individual criminal liability.
The use of drones on the territory of other States has also been justified on the basis of self-defense. Under customary international law States can take military action if the threatened attack is imminent, no other means would deflect it, and the action is proportionate.
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I have an idea:
BLOW UP THE UN.
only kidding
That would be a waste. They should turn it into a Puppet museum. Cause that is what it already is.
I could go for that!
No fair, you have to wait till he is just crushed the life out of someone personally
Begone, Agnes, before someone drops a house on YOU.
“Get the U.S. out of the U.N. Nothing but a terrorist and Communist protection racket.”
I have been saying that since the ‘70s.
It is a suggestion.
I hadn't thought of it that way. You're absolutely correct.
What’s criminal is that this SOB murdered thousands of innocent civilians and the UN did not sanction Iran for his conduct or issue an Interpol warrant. Agnes apparently is out of the loop as most of The UN members are relieved that we sent this POS to hell
Seize the UN building and turn it into a Trump casino.
Nope, they didn’t make one negative peep about Obami in eight years. I guess that bowing paid off.
He was designated and announced to the world many months ago as a terrorist and enemy combatant of the US. THAT is/was his legal status. Not some sovereign government figure, which the UN “law” is referencing.
An enemy combatant, out of his home country, in the middle of leading a charge of military to attack sovereign US territory. They/he pulled the trigger starting the conflict and the US retaliated/defended itself. Immediate responder designation just like the Texas church shooting response.
All the young jihadis love Agnes
Tender young Agnes they say
I think they should punish us, by kicking us out and making a military response.
These UN jokers are just enabling evildoers around the world. Remember how they treated Arafat?
Even better, how about a Treachory Museum?” Assign each room a theme of a member country and display how awful they treat the people and enrich their leadership. Pictures on the wall, framed documents...
There would be a special room for UN Peacekeeper abuse and graft.
The first law of war is “win”
Yes!
Yes!
Actually, what you are saying is what I learned in my International Law class.
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