Posted on 11/01/2025 10:20:43 AM PDT by lowbridge
The United Nations 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 U.N. organization.
Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for Türk's office, relayed his message on Friday at a regular U.N. briefing: "These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats."
She said Türk believed "airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law."
President Trump has justified the attacks on what his administration calls "narco-trafficking vessels" as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the U.S., but the campaign against drug cartels has been divisive among countries in the region.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. military strike in the campaign on Wednesday. He said it targeted a boat carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Four people on board the vessel were killed. It was the 14th strike and the 15th boat destroyed since the campaign began in early September, while the death toll has grown to at least 61.
In some but not all of the strikes, U.S. officials have said the boats were linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration has designated a terrorist organization.
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oh cry me a river
the UnitedNazis is responsible, by commission/ conspiracy/omission... for thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths all around the world
Until they pay that bill, they can shut up.
These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable
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Each blast destroys at least a ton of cocaine, saving hundreds of American lives.
violate international human rights law
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The human rights of people killed by the drugs are not considered.
F.U.N........................
Everybody’s sticking into the Presidents attempt to protect the U.S. so in my opinion screw the useless UN and the judges. GO KILL THE DRUG BOATS AND THEIR CREW.
Meanwhile in SUDAN…..
Why do news morons say “alleged” drug traffickers? They are dead, they were drug traffickers. Dead drug traffickers can’t sue you for calling them drug traffickers.
FU chief.
Do you think they know where the sun don’t shine? 😂
Well, there may be a sternly worded letter involved.
People who oppose these strikes are either morons or are being paid off by the cartels. Prove me wrong.
US out of the UN
UN out of the US
We'll get right on that...
[Meanwhile in SUDAN…..]
NIGERIA, GAZA, SOUTH AFRICA...
THE “UN” CAN SUCK EGGS, IMO.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD TRY HARDER TO STOP THE DRUG FLOW-—ALL AROUND THE WORLD..
YUP
MULTIPLE TIMES OVER....
What about the extrajudicial killings that that the Narco-Cartels commit? They not only kill their customers, but also kill their rivals.
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