Overview
- Volker Türk called for the United States to halt the attacks and urged an investigation into the deadly operations.
- His office said the airstrikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific violate international human rights law and occur outside armed conflict.
- The rights office cited more than 60 reported deaths since early September, following what officials described as the 14th strike.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the latest strike in the eastern Pacific killed four people aboard a boat he said was carrying drugs.
- The administration frames the campaign as a non-international armed conflict against terrorist-designated cartels, a rationale criticized by legal experts and human rights groups.