Extrajudicial execution

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Extrajudicial executions have been utilized by governments throughout history to execute so-called enemies of the state. Human rights organizations have criticized the use of extrajudicial executions as a major violation of human rights.

The US, much more often and usually to a greater extreme than other nations, uses the war crimes of politicide and the crime of war while claiming to be supporting democracy; not only is this erroneous, their actions are sometimes the reverse.

The US, continuing a tradition begun in England's treatment of Northern Ireland (banning of interviews with IRA members and other forms of criminalization of the organization) and many other governments' banning of political opponents and criminalization of undesirable groups, has blurred the line between war and crime prevention with the designation of 'terrorism', until assassination with Unmanned combat air vehicles, or drones is synonymous with extrajudicial execution.

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Drone attacks used by the US since the latter part of the Iraq War are assassinations, but their meaning to the public at large is more closely related to the crime of vengeance institutionalized since the crawling out of the primordial slime of law itself: punishment.

When governments are engaging in the crime of politicide (WP), extrajudicial execution is difficult to distinguish from assassination. All use similar means to similar end, at which point only the long term purpose differs. Both the Great Purge and Operation Condor had the short-term purpose of eliminating political opponents, but the long term goals of the USSR and the US could scarcely have been more different. The Soviet Union ((WP)) used extrajudicial executions, almost exclusively during the two years of the Great Purge, to forestall the perceived threat of a counter-revolution by supporters of capitalism. The Central Intelligence Agency (WP) and right-wing governments in South America killed thousands in Operation Condor (WP) and at least 50 other similar operations to forestall political organization by supporters of socialism outside of the US and spread throughout the world or protect any rule, including right-wing, totalitarian or fascist rule, that supported capitalism.

When governments are engaging in the crime of war, the extrajudicial execution by governments of political opponents is barely distinguishable from assassination, which is barely distinguishable from a military tactic. Extrajudicial executions were used by the CIA in Vietnam during the start of the Phoenix program (WP) where over 19,000 Vietnamese civilians were killed, and by the Viet Cong Viet Cong against hundreds of village leaders and officials suspected of collaboration with the US forces. Drone attack

"By administrative means" (В административном порядке, "V administrativnom poryadke") was an expression in use in the Wikipedia:Soviet Union applied to the cases when some actions that normally required a court decision were left to the decision of executive bodies (administration). With respect to the imprisonment and deportation of individuals this meant extrajudicial punishment (WP).

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Israel has also used extrajudicial executions against the Palestinians throughout the Arab-Israeli conflict especially after the Munich Olympic attack and during the current second intifada. Israeli human rights groups have stated that Israel has assassinated over 300 Palestinians during the period of the second intifada.

In post-Saddam Iraq, the Shiite led government have used many death squads to perform countless extrajudicial executions of Sunni Iraqis.

See also

Wikipedia:Portal:Soviet Union

• Extrajudicial and erroneous
• Extrajudicial detention Extrajudicial detention
• Extrajudicial killing (WP)
• Extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the Philippines (WP)
• Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States (WP)
• Extrajudicial punishment (WP)
• Extraordinary rendition (WP)
• Special Council of the NKVD
• NKVD Troika
• Population transfer in the Soviet Union
• 101st kilometre