Is it legal to kill someone like this under international law? - Eamonn Donaghy
The US would argue that Soleimani was responsible for unprovoked attacks on American forces in Iraq. Those forces were there at the request of the current Iraqi government.
홍콩명품도매=홍콩사입 홍콩명품사입 홍콩명품도매
Soleimani was a man whom Washington believed already had the blood of many US personnel on his hands. Meanwhile the Quds organisation he headed was seen by the US as a terrorist organisation. So his killing may follow a US legal narrative.
남자레플리카사이트=남자레플리카사이트
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But the noted international legal scholar, Notre Dame Law School Prof Mary Ellen O'Connell, has this view of the legal implications:
파라점퍼스=파라점퍼스여성의류
"Pre-emptive self defence is never a legal justification for assassination. Nothing is. The relevant law is the United Nations Charter, which defines self defence as a right to respond to an actual and significant armed attack," she said.
막스마라=막스마라여성의류
"The use of a drone to kill Iranian Gen Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad was not in response to an armed attack on the United States. Iran has not attacked the sovereign territory of the United States," she said.
레플리카시계사이트=레플리카시계사이트
"In this case, the United States has not only committed an extrajudicial killing, it has carried out an unlawful attack within Iraq."
남자레플리카추천=남자레플리카추천
Where does the UN stand on these killings? - Sara
Beyond the stated views of individual representatives, it is hard to say what the UN view is, since there really is no such thing.
레플리카 레플리카시계 레플리카미러급=레플리카 레플리카시계 레플리카미러급
Does one, for example, mean the considered view of the UN Security Council? That is likely to be divided and unable to reach consensus.
명품패딩레플리카=명품패딩레플리카
Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was deeply concerned by the rise in tensions in the Middle East.
"This is a moment in which leaders must exercise maximum restraint. The world cannot afford another war in the Gulf," his spokesman, Farhan Haq, said in a statement.
