Overview
- Volker Türk condemned the U.S. strikes on vessels as unacceptable and urged Washington to stop the operations immediately.
- OHCHR reported at least around 60 deaths since early September, with one account citing 62, in attacks in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific.
- The UN warned the actions likely violate international law and risk extrajudicial killings, underscoring that lethal force is permitted only as a last resort against an imminent threat.
- Based on limited public information from U.S. authorities, the rights office said those on the targeted boats did not appear to pose an imminent danger.
- The U.S. portrays the campaign as necessary drug interdiction against cartels and terrorism, while some families say victims were fishermen and reporting links the operations to tensions with Venezuela.