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Targeted killing is defined as a form of assassination carried by governments against their perceived enemies. Analysts believe it to be a modern euphemism for the assassination (prominent premeditated killing) of an individual by a state organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield.
Since the late 20th century, the legal status of targeted killing has become a subject of contention within and between various nations. Historically, at least since the mid-eighteenth century, Western thinking has generally considered the use of assassination as a tool of statecraft to be illegal.
Some twenty-six members of Congress, with academics such as Gregory Johnsen and Charles Schmitz, media figures (Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, James Traub), civil rights groups (i.e. the American Civil Liberties Union) and ex-CIA station chief in Islamabad, Robert Grenier, have criticized targeted killings as a form of extrajudicial killings, which may be illegal within the United States and possibly under international law.
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The official history of the civilian is that since the codification of the laws of armed conflict in the Hague and Geneva Conventions, civilians are increasingly recognized and protected by international law. Armed forces publicly declare the importance of protecting, sparing, and liberating civilians. For example, the insistence of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) that the deaths of Palestinian civilians are due to Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields is, while factually not true, evidence of the persistence of the norm that to kill civilians is to fail as a soldier.
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/07/28/civilians-combatants-histories-international-law/
Targeted killing is defined as a form of assassination carried by governments against their perceived enemies. Analysts believe it to be a modern euphemism for the assassination (prominent premeditated killing) of an individual by a state organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield.
Since the late 20th century, the legal status of targeted killing has become a subject of contention within and between various nations. Historically, at least since the mid-eighteenth century, Western thinking has generally considered the use of assassination as a tool of statecraft to be illegal.
Some twenty-six members of Congress, with academics such as Gregory Johnsen and Charles Schmitz, media figures (Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, James Traub), civil rights groups (i.e. the American Civil Liberties Union) and ex-CIA station chief in Islamabad, Robert Grenier, have criticized targeted killings as a form of extrajudicial killings, which may be illegal within the United States and possibly under international law.
Targeted killing - Wikipedia
The official history of the civilian is that since the codification of the laws of armed conflict in the Hague and Geneva Conventions, civilians are increasingly recognized and protected by international law. Armed forces publicly declare the importance of protecting, sparing, and liberating civilians. For example, the insistence of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) that the deaths of Palestinian civilians are due to Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields is, while factually not true, evidence of the persistence of the norm that to kill civilians is to fail as a soldier.
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/07/28/civilians-combatants-histories-international-law/
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