A UN report has concluded that recent US airstrikes on vessels allegedly trafficking drugs breached international law and could constitute crimes against humanity.
The report by Special Rapporteur Ben Saul said since September last year there had been at least 68 US strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, outside US territorial waters, which killed more than 220 people.
Saul said that even if targets could be identified as members of designated terrorist groups, they had not staged an armed attack on the US which would trigger a right to self-defence under international law.
🇺🇸 U.S. forces unleashed a lethal strike on a suspected drug-running speedboat in the Caribbean
SOUTHCOM says the vessel was racing along a known trafficking route when Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere struck it, killing four people the military described as…
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 20, 2026
Who cares what the UN says?
