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2020-07-07 International-UN-NGOs

UN expert: US drone strike which killed Iran's Soleimani was 'unlawful'

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The January US drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a UN human rights investigator said on Monday.

The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on Soleimani's convoy as it left Baghdad airport, said Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The attack violated the UN Charter, Callamard wrote in a report calling for accountability for targeted killings by armed drones and for greater regulation of the weapons.

"The world is at a critical time, and possible tipping point, when it comes to the use of drones. ... The Security Council is missing in action; the international community, willingly or not, stands largely silent," Callamard, an independent investigator, told Reuters.
Your tax dollars at work.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-07 03:05|| || Front Page|| [30 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Arrest that drone!

Posted by Shating Turkeyneck1016 2020-07-07 03:09|| 2020-07-07 03:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump should start drone striking UN special rapporteurs.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-07 03:43|| 2020-07-07 03:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Did the UN ever consider the legality of the drone strike by Obama on American children while killing Awali?

Posted by Airandee 2020-07-07 06:44|| 2020-07-07 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder how much the "independent" investigator receives from Iran and China.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-07-07 07:43|| 2020-07-07 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 So? What are you going to do about it?

US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!

Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-07 08:36|| 2020-07-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 As soon as I saw her mug I wanted to Ralph.

Posted by Clem 2020-07-07 08:42|| 2020-07-07 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 What does it take to become an expert for the UN? Asking for a friend.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-07-07 09:56|| 2020-07-07 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Will Meryl Streep play her role in the upcoming movie?

Posted by Raj 2020-07-07 10:20|| 2020-07-07 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 And the IRG? Any word from UN experts on all the carnage they created?

Posted by Whuck Sleling5802 2020-07-07 12:28|| 2020-07-07 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 US provides the preponderance of funding for the UN.

So why is it that they don't represent our interests? Other countries that give a tiny amount always get the UN's approval.

Defund the UN.

Posted by Maggie Poodle6767 2020-07-07 14:06|| 2020-07-07 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
stolen from DV

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-07-07 14:18|| 2020-07-07 14:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Feel free WM. I stole it from someone else back in the early 90s. Been so long I forgot whom I stole it from.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-07 15:24|| 2020-07-07 15:24|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ My aunt, who was a card carrying member of the John Birch Society, (scared the crap out of a lot of people) had that bumper sticker in the 60's.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-07 15:54|| 2020-07-07 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Her fashion sense is also unlawful but nobody does anything about it.

Posted by gorb 2020-07-07 18:14|| 2020-07-07 18:14|| Front Page Top

#15 What does it take to become an expert for the UN? Asking for a friend.

Your soul. You have to sell your soul to China and Islam.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-07-07 23:27|| 2020-07-07 23:27|| Front Page Top

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