Although the Court concluded in the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion that &quot; [t]he test of what constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of life ,,, falls to determined by the applicable lex specialis, namely, the law applicable in armed conflict &quot; , more recently, in Congo v. Uganda, it found independent violations of human rights law during armed conflict without applying the lex specialis principle (paras. 216-219).
Although the Court concluded in the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion that &quot; [t]he test of what constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of life ,,, falls to determined by the applicable lex specialis, namely, the law applicable in armed conflict &quot; , more recently, in Congo v. Uganda, it found independent violations of human rights law during armed conflict without applying the lex specialis principle (paras. 216-219).