UN says US strikes on suspected 'drug boats' may be crimes against humanity
A UN report has concluded that the U.S.’s boat strike campaign in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean has violated international law and “plausibly” amounts to crimes against humanity, a label reserved for the worst human rights violations in global conflicts.
Truthout46The report says that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the boat strikes constitute “crimes against humanity of murder” under international law because they targeted civilians, and not those classified as combatants under any formal category of international law or otherwise.
finstersghost.bsky.social3hegseth's hankering for the hague
Deborah Leão 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇸23a gente sabe que essas declarações não vão gerar punição, mas pelo menos fica o registro do absurdo que é a operação Lança do Sul. não tem justificativa, explicação, autorização, nada. nem nome das vítimas. só pequenos barcos sendo bombardeados em nome da "guerra às drogas".
the terminally well13uh these are very obviously super clearly fascist ghouls absolutely undoubtedly committing crimes against humanity and all of the blatantly cowardly equivocating is nothing but evidence of the excessive degree of fascist/capitalist institutional rot
Anodyne2"United States military law prohibits war crimes, murder and manslaughter including extraterritorially ... The Government has regrettably penalized former military personnel who called on United States forces to disobey illegal orders, rather than those who allegedly committed unlawful killings."
Antlers Teeth Claws2This is why the regime is trying to discredit & disband the ICC: to avoid Hegseth, Trump et al from being tried for their continuing murders.
James K2Hegseth came straight out of the gate telling us that he'd be doing shit like that. One wonders how many Iranian citizens that he's killed, too.
"The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 231 in 69 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" almost a year ago."
Andy Fraser35I’m now 100% persuaded that he just murders Venezuelan fisherman as a way of blowing off steam when everything is going to shit. The way I might go for a run or have a beer or watch a show to distract me. But if you’re a serial child rapist, you need something more extreme as a distraction.
special-sauce.bsky.social1My hot take on these is not so much murder because they want to play with toys and kill people (certainly possible) rather, the same thing it always is with them, corruption. Someone, whether a rival cartel or corrupt government, is paying large sums of money to them for these strikes.
Karma's Dad1That's 231 extrajudicial murders hanging around the necks of Trump & Hegseth and the admirals who are approving the orders.
