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Saturday, 11 July 2020_A UN special rapporteur has once again lashed out at the United States for breaching international law by assassinating top Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone attack, warning about the repercussions of unbridled and self-willed use of armed drones.
"International law is international. It is not American," Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a post on her Twitter account on Saturday.
She added that her warnings on the "exponential, unregulated use of armed drones," her assessment of the drone strike against General Soleimani and her calls for actions to prevent further crises are all based on international law.
On January 3, the US assassinated General Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and a group of their companions near Baghdad International Airport.
Both commanders enjoyed deep reverence among Muslim nations over their endeavors in eliminating the US-sponsored Daesh terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria.
The operation was conducted with the authorization of US President Donald Trump.
In a report presented on Thursday to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Callamard said the US has put the world at unprecedented peril with its assassination of Iran's top anti-terror commander and warned that it is high time the international community broke its silence on Washington’s drone-powered unlawful killings.
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