US EditionUN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are ‘unacceptable’
- On Friday, U.N. High Commissioner Volker Türk said U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean are unacceptable and must stop.
- Since early September, the U.S. counternarcotics task force says it targets ships believed to carry narcotics to stop drugs reaching the United States, including the 14th strike.
- Recent strikes killed multiple people and produced a few survivors who were repatriated, with reporting showing at least 61 killed since early September, including a Wednesday strike that killed four and Pacific attacks killing at least 18.
- Regional governments and rights groups have condemned the strikes, with Venezuelan and Colombian officials, Claudia Sheinbaum, and international human rights groups urging investigations and accountability.
- U.N. experts said lethal force is permitted only as a last resort against an imminent threat, noting U.S. publicly available information suggests targets did not pose such a threat.
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The United Nations (U.N.) has staked out a position against President Donald Trump’s lethal airstrikes on drug-trafficking boats. “These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable,” U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told ABC News in a statement published Friday afternoon. “The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the cr…
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The Trump administration’s deadly bombing campaign of alleged drug-running vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean violate international law and should be investigated, the United Nations’ top human rights official said Friday.
UN human rights chief says US attacks on accused drug smugglers are illegal
GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief has condemned the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats that it says are being used to smuggle drugs from South America, saying that they violate international law and should be investigated.
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