English-German translations for targeted killing

• gezielte Tötung die
  Terroristen, Diktatoren und Massenmörder sind vor Gericht zu stellen und nicht durch gezielte Tötung zu liquidieren. Terrorists, dictators and mass murderers must be brought before a court and not eliminated by means of targeted killings.

Definition of targeted killing

• The intentional killing by a government or its agents of a civilian or "unlawful combatant" who is not in that government's custody, and who is taking part in an armed conflict or terrorism, whether by bearing arms or otherwise, and is thus regarded by the government as having lost the immunity from being targeted that he or she would otherwise have under the w:Geneva Conventions|Geneva Conventions.

Related words

• target
• targeted
• targeting
• microtargeting
• retarget
• retargeting
• untargetable
• target language
• target text
• target audience