Can the assassination of a dictator be justified ?
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Can the assassination of a dictator be justified ?
Dear Audience,
Welcome to the 22nd Human Rights summit meeting and thank you for your presence, your involvement and also for your fidelity. Before starting my presentation, let me ask you some questions.
- Does any person on earth have the right to kill another person?
The answer is NO.
- Does any group of people have the right to kill a person?
The answer is once again NO.
- Does a political leader have he right to kill another political leader, or otherwise, to destroy a government?
Obviously, the answer is NO.
Despite of all these obvious facts, political assassinations are very common.
Who knows:
- Emiliano Zapata, the leader of the Mexican Revolution? Assassinated.
- Léon Trotski? Murdered.
- Benigno Aquino, a Phillipinian resistant? Killed
All these leaders have been assassinated for political reasons.
Can the assassination of a dictator be justified?
Assassination can be defined as the targeted killing of an individual for political reasons in peacetime. It can be undertaken by individual citizens, or by the agents of another state, but in either case it takes place without any legal process. Moreover, the UN Charter (Article 24) and various conventions (e.g New York Convention) clearly appear to make assassination in peacetime against international law.
Assassination can never be justified. If we assume the role of executioner without the backing of law we are sinking down to the level of the dictators. Any new government founded upon such an arbitrary act will lack moral legitimacy, undermining its popular support and making its failure likely. Consider the long civil war in Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C, or the failure of the British Commonwealth after the execution of Charles I in 1649.
Killing one individual will achieve nothing; dictators are part of a wider elite from which someone sharing the same autocratic values will emerge to take their place. This successor is likely to...