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 Soleimanis 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 Soleimanis 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 individuals 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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It will be utterly humiliating if we have to suffer stern letters. Belgium may even send troops after us
so did this turd violate law when he kept killing innocent people?
Screw you UN and your liberal, socialist, anti American fools in this country. I am sick of your ilk who pretend to be American, and yet are against America.
Naah, convert the building to condos and the Secretariat can be a big Burger King.
Agree!
Up yours, U.N.
Didn’t somebody once suggest on one of these threads that the UN should be evicted from its Turtle Bay complex and the property turned into a VA hospital?
Pleasant thought, even if unlikely to happen.
Still, with Trump, there’s always the chance of a pleasant surprise.
Exactly!
I’m good with sending a Hellfire missile to visit Agnes Callamard. Adjust her damned attitude.
International law forbids killing terrorists?
Soleimani's presence in Iraq was an imminent threat to many lives.
F*CK the UN
...or a new Trump hotel? That’d be rich!
US: Suck it.
i disagree.
get the hell out of america you socialist dictator terrorist organization.
Impressive that they could take out this time from their human trafficking and pedophilia.
“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.”
So, the UN is claiming Obama’s hundreds of drone strikes were illegal? OK.
building is really old and you can’t get the stench of socialist/dictator out of that.
But not 0sama and that other guy chased down by a dog?
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