III. SPECIFIC RIGHTS A. Right to life The right not to be arbitrarily deprived of life is non-derogable in both the international and regional systems. United Nations The right to life is protected by article 6 of the Covenant and is one of the nonderogable rights mentioned in article 4, paragraph 2: With reference to the specific situation in …, the [Human Rights] Committee expresses concern that article 4 of the Covenant, which specifies the provisions that are non-derogable even in times of public emergency, has not been complied with. It maintains that this article is applicable to the situation … where the use of weapons by combatants has led to the loss of life and deprivation of freedom of large numbers of persons, regardless of the fact that a state of emergency has not been formally declared. --CCPR/C/79/Add.54, para. 27 (1995). ***** The number of [persons] who have been killed by the security forces, as well as all persons who have been the victims of terrorist attacks, is of concern. The use of rubber-coated metal bullets by the security forces in the occupied territories in dispersing demonstrations is reported to have killed many [persons], including children. The State party is urged to enforce rigorously the strict limitations on the operational rules as to the use of firearms and the use of rubber bullets against unarmed civilians. --CCPR/C/79/Add.93, para. 17 (1998). ***** In Suarez de Guerrero v. Colombia, the Human Rights Committee examined a case in which the alleged victim and six other persons were killed during a raid by police because they were suspected, as members of a guerrilla organization, of having kidnapped a former ambassador: The right enshrined in [article 6] is the supreme right of the human being. It follows that the deprivation of life by the authorities of the State is a matter of the utmost gravity. This follows from the article as a whole and in particular is the reason why paragraph 2 of the article lays down that the death penalty may be imposed only for the most serious crimes. The requirements that the right shall be protected by law and that no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life 27