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Legal Justifications for the Use of Drone Killings. The US administration purports to justify the lawfulness of such killings by reference to self-defence and IHL.398 This is one of numerous examples of the blurring of the boundaries of jus ad bellum and in bello; the criteria for lawful use of force in self defence, addressed in Chapter 4,399 are distinct from the legal question whether drone killings can be justified by a strict 393 Ibid. See Emmerson Interim Report for examples. 394 See, e.g., ‘Indonesia: Police Kill 5 Suspects in Terrorist Ring’, The New York Times, 20 March 2012, available at: xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx/2012/03/20/world/asia/indonesia-police-kill- 5-suspects-in-terrorist-ring.html ; X. Xxxxxx, ‘Philippine Officials Say Raid Killed Militants’, The New York Times, 2 February 2012, available at: xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx/2012/02/03/ world/asia/philippines-says-raid-killed-senior-militants.html. Jeemaah Islamiyah is described as a radical Islamic organization based in Indonesia with ‘links to Al Qaeda’, which was responsible for, inter alia, the notorious attack on a Bali nightclub that killed 202 people in October 2002. 395 ‘Xxxxxx Study on Targeted Killings’, supra note 109, p. 8. 396 Statement by Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Special Rapporteur on Extra Judicial executions; Xxxxxx, note 387. 397 ‘Xxxxxx Study on Targeted Killings’, supra note 109, p. 9. Xxxxxx noted that many states have or are acquiring this technology, which may also become available to non-state actors. See also, ‘UN launches Inquiry into Drone Killings’, supra note 402. The Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Xxx Xxxxxxxx, stated that 51 states had the technology to use drones. See e.g.. X. Xxx and X. Xxxx, ‘Global Race on to Match U.S. Drone Capabilities’, The Washington Post, 4 July 2011, available at: xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx- xxxx.xxx/xxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx-xx-xx-xxxxx-xx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/0000/00/ 30/gHQACWdmxH_story.html. 398 See Koh, ‘ASIL Speech’, supra note 248; ‘Holder Speech on Targeted Killing’, supra note 248; ‘Xxxxxxx Speech on National Security’, supra note 254. 399 Self-defence is an exception to the prohibition on the use of force against another state, but requires that the force be necessary and proportionate to a threat being defended against. See Chapter 5.
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