Some lawyers say exercise of article 51 of UN charter to justify attack appears to be a departure from established practiceThe killing of British jihadists in a UK drone strike on the Syrian city of Raqqa was justified by David Cameron as an act of self-defence under article 51 of the United Nations charter.
While that legal principle was the basis of armed action in both the Falklands war in 1982 and the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, human rights groups say its deployment in a targeted killing marks a meaningful shift in military practice.
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Source: theguardian.com