The USA Killed Again at Sea Last Night

The USA struck another small boat in the eastern Pacific last night, killing one man and leaving two survivors, according to US Southern Command. SOUTHCOM said the strike was ordered by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, that “intelligence confirmed” the vessel was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes,” and that it was operated by a “Designated Terrorist Organization.”

Civilian vessels are not expected to know what a foreign nation would dictate as a “narco-trafficking route” and are not expected to. The act of moving on a specific area of water, in international waters, is not a crime, and certainly not a crime worthy of a death sentence. The USA has never provided information detailing how they can avoid false positives in this campaign, and we are already aware of a number of fishermen who have been murdered by the U.S. military at sea.

It is also important to note that there is no US or international law that makes transporting drugs a capital offence. And we still do not know whether a single drug boat has been hit.

With last night’s killing, the death toll now stands at 194 people and at least 59 vessels destroyed since 2 September. In nearly nine months, the regime has not publicly identified a single one of the dead, nor linked a single one of the boats to a single drug shipment.

It is a killing spree, and we already gathered the evidence to prove it. In every case where the dead have been identified, by their families, their governments, or the survivors, they have turned out to be fishermen, not drug dealers. We have more confirmed instances of fishing boats being struck than drug boats.

If the USA were killing who it says it is killing, it would say so. It would name them. It does this routinely with cartel leaders, cataloguing their crimes, confirming their identities. Their ICE thugs parade the identities of those who they take in the USA on the ICE social media pages. In this campaign, none of that has happened. The USA is more than capable of showing the evidence that leads to their decisions, but not here?

194 dead at sea is not a foreign policy. It is murder, and there is no end in sight for the serial killers in Washington D.C.

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