Three more people have been killed in the eastern Pacific in a fresh U.S. strike on a small vessel the regime insists, as it always insists, was a drug boat. There were no survivors. At least 199 people have now been killed in the murder campaign at sea since September.
SOUTHCOM ran the same excuse it always does, a “Designated Terrorist Organization,” a “known narco-trafficking route,” “narco-trafficking operations.” No evidence was produced, as no evidence has ever been produced. No vessel struck in this campaign has been shown to have carried a gram of any drug.
In the absence of evidence, these killings are unlawful under both U.S. and international law. Should evidence ever appear, they remain unlawful under both. There is no version of this in which blowing up a boat and the men aboard it, without warning, without arrest, without trial, becomes a lawful act.
Our own investigation found the same thing on each strike that had available information; fishing vessels, fishing crews, fishing routes. Families are now pursuing legal action over the execution of their fathers and husbands.
199 people have now been killed by the serial killers in Washington D.C. The disgusting and illegal campaign shows no signs of slowing down.
