Editor’s remarks:
In criminal law those who commit a premeditated murder are held
accountable of their crimes in places where there is rule of law. The
same principle extends in international law to the states that plan and
kill people in foreign countries. They can be held accountable for the
crimes of murder. If a powerful country like the United States uses its
global domination and its overwhelming military and technological power
and expertise to carry out such killings in some distant parts of the
world, such killings are unlawful and culpable homicides. Those who
authorise such killings by their military forces or by other means
remain responsible vicariously for the crimes . Under international law
they are responsible for the crimes of murder.
The
American rulers have been killing people in many countries in total
disregard to international law and the Geneva Conventions, acting as if
they are above the law because there is no one in the world who can hold
them accountable for their crimes. That means the brutal use of
military and technological power by the American rulers is a law unto
itself and the people around the world accept it as ‘American
Exceptionalism’! In brief, the rulers of America can do whatever they
want because they represent the the strongest imperial power in this
age.
By the time Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize award
one year into his presidency, he had ordered more drone strikes than
George W. Bush had authorized during his two presidential terms.
truth-out.org|By Marjorie Cohn
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