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The report also considers law enforcement “shoot-to-kill” policies that, in their premeditation, intent and identification of specific targets, may be considered examples of targeted killings.

My 2006 report to the Commission examined “shoot-to-kill” policies in response to a number of high-profile pronouncements from officials of various Governments, authorizing police to “shoot on sight” alleged terrorists and criminals (E/CN.4/2006/53, paras. 44-54).

In fact, on the last day of our stay in Yemen, i.e. on 2 December, UNHCR reported the drowning of at least 20 Somalis, with 2 missing, when the passengers on a boat carrying 115 persons were forced by the boat crew to jump overboard in deep water near the shore of Yemen.

With regard to Iran, New Zealand was particularly concerned at the execution of minors, punishment by stoning, restrictions on the right to freedom of religion and discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities.

Those operations contributed to the capture by Ugandan troops on 12 May of the self-styled Major General Caesar Acellam Otto, a one-time number four in the LRA command hierarchy; the capture by Central African Republic troops on 22 May of two LRA combatants; and the killing on 16 June of two other LRA combatants by Ugandan troops, who also rescued seven civilians who had been abducted.

On the same day as the initial NACC action, Thai headlines carried Hun Sen’s alleged comments threatening to shoot any Thai, civilian or military, who crossed the border, and to tear up any Thai map used in border negotiation talks.

In 2009, three persons connected with radical extremist religious groups had been killed after resisting border officials.

They do not like Islam associated with violence, they do not like people who keep to themselves and reject traditional practices, they do not want dead terrorists buried in local cemeteries, and they do not approve of firebrands preaching jihad in their local mosques.

On 2 October, police pursuing the killers tracked down and shot dead Taufik Hidayat and Alex alias Cecep.

The situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran was alarming, owing to the increase in the number of executions, in particular of minors, the continuation of stonings, repression of minorities, severe restrictions on freedom of expression and of the press, discrimination and violence against women, and the persecution of human rights defenders.

At 1800 hours, an armed terrorist group using a sniper rifle shot and killed Colonel Fahd Atiyah in front of his home in Rukn-al-Din.

In 2009 and 2010, Indonesia had captured the most wanted terrorist suspects, namely Noordin Mohammed Top and Joko Pitono alias Dulmatin, who had been shot dead by the Indonesian Police.

In the ensuing firefight, eight assailants were killed, three were injured and four were captured by FARDC; MONUSCO suffered no casualties.

EULEX judges held several confirmation of indictment hearings, including a case against seven defendants charged with organized crime and smuggling of migrants related to the capsizing of a boat and drowning of two dozen migrants from Kosovo on the Tisa/Tisza River, which marks the Serbia/Hungary border in December 2009.

The terrorist was killed before he could reach the station and blow up the car.

During the reporting period, Israeli security forces conducted 313 incursions in the West Bank, resulting in one Palestinian being shot dead by Israeli soldiers on 22 July while he attempted to intrude into the settlement of Barkan.

As I informed you in my letter dated 11 March 2011 (A/65/780-S/2011/132), on 8 March 2011, as a result of the ceasefire violation by the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, Fariz Badalov, a nine-year-old resident of the village of Orta Garvand of the Agdam district of the Republic of Azerbaijan, was shot dead by an Armenian sniper.

Notwithstanding the prevalence of the notorious epidemic of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, Member States are not at liberty to attack or kill Somalian pirates, since the high seas are reserved for “peaceful purposes”.

Hence two successive flechette shells were fired at the operatives, killing them.

Stated that at sunset on 6 June 2012, he went to the home of Hassan Allush Alwan, the President of the Farmers’ Association in the village, because the latter had telephoned him to say that four armed men from the Alwan family had been killed in a clash with law enforcement forces in Qubayr farm.