| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/05/13, 2:23 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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UNITED NATIONS, May 11 2013 (IPS) - Adding fuel to a long-simmering dispute between the U.S. and Pakistan, a Peshawar High Court declared CIA drone strikes illegal on Thursday, referring to such attacks in Pakistan’s tribal belt as “war crime(s)”.
The court called for its nation’s “use of force, if need be” to prevent further civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes. It also orderedPakistani delegates at the U.N. to bring forth the issue with the
Security Council, where Pakistan is currently a non-permanent member.
Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, who presided over the case, cited a litany of broken international laws and agreements, ranging from the U.N. Charter to the U.N. Millennium Declaration and the Geneva
Conventions. He also called for the U.S. government to redress Pakistani civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes, and for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to establish a war crimes tribunal to investigate further injustices.
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