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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Correct-o-mundo!
I think the two elder Trump sons could convert it to swanky apartments. Cover up that ugly exterior with something beautiful. Make it look like the Trump Casino in Vegas. Name it for their baby brother; Barron Trump Tower. Drive commie lib rats bat guano.
But, but, the un has done such excellent work in cyprus and haiti and, etc./s
President Trump did something to someone, somewhere.
Now can we add the United Nations as a target also for their invading the USA?
That one and the whole series were funny as heck :)
Whaddya want on that pie, amigo?
I got yer “international law” right here, UN.
But it was OK when Barkie and Cankles killed Khadafie.
FR really needs a Like button.
Peter Sellers and Hebert Lom were class acts.
Defund the Ugly Nations
Kick the bastards out of New York
We literally have thousands of years of history that establishes our right to reprisal here. It is significant enough that our Constitution even makes provision for issuance of Letters of Marque for this purpose.
Anyone who says otherwise can F off.
A general outside his territory, who had attacked the US several times. I think thats fair game.
“International law” is a suggestion. If it were “law”, no nation would be sovereign.
It is a suggestion.
So, leave already.
lol
Good old UN. A sternly worded statement full of weasel words that won't and can't be backed up.
Shut up and move out of America.
Tell the UN to go fund themselves.
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