ABC News - The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark the first such condemnation of its kind from a United Nations organization.
The Intercept - Over the past two months, Donald Trump has killed at least 60 civilians in 14 separate airstrikes against what he claims — without evidence or a shred of due process — to be “narcoterrorist” drug boats.
A high-ranking Pentagon official admitted to The Intercept weeks ago that these strikes are criminal attacks on civilians.
Since then, the U.N. has explicitly condemned Trump’s boat strikes, saying, “International law does not allow governments to simply murder alleged drug traffickers.” Georgetown law professor David Cole put it even more plainly: “We are simply engaged in cold-blooded murder.”
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