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How Does Rigalia's Drone Strikes Have Targeted Non Combatant Civilians?
Thus, Ardenia must adduce ‘fully conclusive evidence’to prove that Rigalia's drone strikes have targeted non-combatant civilians, which is an allegation of ‘exceptional gravity’. No such evidence has been presented, much less alleged with sufficient particularity as to evoke a semblance of certainty. Instead, the uses of precision weaponry attack which the elimination of 15 important Zetian separatist leaders show that Rigalia's attacks are not indiscriminate or disproportionate. The proportionality rule attaches to specific attacks, not large military campaigns. As such,Rigalia’s strikes would be disproportionate only if the civilian loss of life expected from each strike would exceed its concrete and direct military advantage. In each operation, the anticipated military advantage of preemptively disabling or disrupting potential deadly ZSM attacks by eliminating their leaders outweighed the comparatively low civilian loss of life …show more content…
Rigalia is not liable for the attack on the Bakchar Valley Hospital.
Rigalia is not internationally responsible for the strike on Bakchar Valley Hospital. Rigalia has not owned the attack. Therefore, the attack is not imputable to Rigalia and was, in any event, lawful. It appears and it has in fact been established that Morganian personnel perpetrated the attack.
When Morganian personnel launched the attack, it did so under its own initiative owing to the fact that it has its own security interests that are different, separate and distinguishable from that of Rigalia.
While Rigalia may have some common interest with the conflict, and may have shared sensitive information with Morganian personnel, the Morganians who orchestrated the strike did not do so under the directive of the Rigalian government.
Therefore, Rigalia has no jurisdiction and has no obligation to investigate the attack. As a consequence, this Court should not compel Rigalia to order an investigation, and neither should it order an investigation into the

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