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Qasem Soleimani: US strike on Iran general was unlawful, UN expert says
The US attack that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani violated international law, a UN expert says.
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A report by the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, says the US had not provided sufficient evidence of an imminent threat to life to justify the attack.
The US state department accused her of "giving a pass to terrorists".
Last week, Iran issued arrest warrants for US President Donald Trump and 35 others on charges of murder and terrorism in connection with the killing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53345885
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A report by the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, says the US had not provided sufficient evidence of an imminent threat to life to justify the attack.
The US state department accused her of "giving a pass to terrorists".
Last week, Iran issued arrest warrants for US President Donald Trump and 35 others on charges of murder and terrorism in connection with the killing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53345885
U.N. Special Rapporteur: U.S. Execution Of Soleimani By Drone "Is Not Just A Slippery Slope. It Is A Cliff."
A new report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions warns that drone strikes threaten global stability. The killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike in January is seen as a watershed moment with global implications in a Second Drone Age in which armed drones are proliferating at an alarming rate.
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While the report by Agnes Callamard of Columbia University is titled Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions it focuses heavily on drone killings almost to exclusion of other actions. This is necessary, Callamard argues, because while other killings trigger investigations and commissions of enquiry, those carried out by drones are largely neglected by national and international law.
U.N. special rapporteurs have previously warned of the dangers of unchecked growth in armed drones. In 2013, then Special Rapporteur Christoff Heyns warned that unchallenged drone strikes would “do structural damage to the cornerstones of international security and set precedents that undermine the protection of life across the globe in the longer term.”
Callamard reports that seven years on we have entered a ‘second drone age.’ It is no longer just a few elite actors like the U.S. using drones. More than a hundred states as well as many non-state actors operate them, and around forty have armed drones. In this era even conflicts between small states in the Caucasus can involve armed drones on both sides. Turkey, Nigeria, Iraq, and Pakistan are all now carrying out drone strikes against domestic targets.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/07/09/un-special-rapporteur-drone-execution-of-soleimani-is-not-just-a-slippery-slope-it-is-a-cliff/
A new report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions warns that drone strikes threaten global stability. The killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike in January is seen as a watershed moment with global implications in a Second Drone Age in which armed drones are proliferating at an alarming rate.
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While the report by Agnes Callamard of Columbia University is titled Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions it focuses heavily on drone killings almost to exclusion of other actions. This is necessary, Callamard argues, because while other killings trigger investigations and commissions of enquiry, those carried out by drones are largely neglected by national and international law.
U.N. special rapporteurs have previously warned of the dangers of unchecked growth in armed drones. In 2013, then Special Rapporteur Christoff Heyns warned that unchallenged drone strikes would “do structural damage to the cornerstones of international security and set precedents that undermine the protection of life across the globe in the longer term.”
Callamard reports that seven years on we have entered a ‘second drone age.’ It is no longer just a few elite actors like the U.S. using drones. More than a hundred states as well as many non-state actors operate them, and around forty have armed drones. In this era even conflicts between small states in the Caucasus can involve armed drones on both sides. Turkey, Nigeria, Iraq, and Pakistan are all now carrying out drone strikes against domestic targets.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/07/09/un-special-rapporteur-drone-execution-of-soleimani-is-not-just-a-slippery-slope-it-is-a-cliff/
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