(CMC) — The co-chairs of the Caribbean Caucus in the United States House of Representatives have strongly condemned what they describe as illegal and unilateral US military air strikes ordered by the Trump administration against suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Caribbean-American congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, and California congresswoman Maxine Waters issued the joint statement on Friday.
They accused the administration of adopting a “kill first, ask questions never” approach and said the actions undermine US commitments to international law, damage relations with Caribbean partners and risk civilian casualties.
“Enough is enough,” they said, calling for the strikes to end immediately and for transparency on the operations.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, also denounced the airstrikes, warning they contravene international human rights law. He said more than 60 people have reportedly been killed since early September and urged Washington to halt what he called “unacceptable” operations and prevent “extrajudicial killings”.
While the administration has defended the operations as counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism efforts, Türk rejected that justification, saying drug enforcement is a law enforcement function governed by strict limits on lethal force. He called for independent investigations into the reported attacks.
International rights watchdog Amnesty International this week separately described the strikes as “murder” and called on the US Congress to intervene and stop the operations. Amnesty noted US officials have publicly confirmed 13 strikes to date — eight in the Caribbean and five in the Pacific — and argued the United States is not engaged in any armed conflict in the region that would legally justify such military force.
Amnesty officials said the administration has not provided evidence that the individuals targeted posed imminent threats to life, nor shown that the vessels could not have been intercepted and boarded.
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Oh please!!! How bout the cartels ship the drugs to her door step…Yawns…..Nobody messing with Orange Man….NOBODY!!!!
Yes, this world is indeed a messed up place! But just think of how much better it would be without the likes of you in it.🤔
This young lady uses every opportunity to ride on Trumps ‘membrum virile’. You would think the man knows her personally 😒
It would be so much better…
It is quite interesting that so many people in here are against anything Trump does. Serious cases of TDS… I would recommend yall get checked… Everyone wants the problem fixed, but no one wants to make the tough decisions to do anything about it. No one sees the millions and millions of lives lost and/or affected by narcotics. The suffering these people go through, the devastation and grief it causes to families etc. Until you guys go through it or have someone close to you go through that, then and maybe then, you’ll understand what Trump and his team is trying to do. All I’ve been hearing is “orange man bad”…. He has tried talking to the leaders of those countries to do something about it and it gets nowhere. So the man is doing what he feels needs to be done to protect the people in his country. So miss me with the Orange man bad and TDS. These drugs kill and harm way way way too many people and it’s easy for yall to condemn his actions when it’s not affecting yall. Where is the care and compassion for the millions of people affected by these drugs every year? Maybe focus on that instead of yall mental TDS. Ask health care workers in these drug ridden cities what it’s like to see a parent grieving over the lost of their kid, who was given a fentynal laced drug at a party or study group. Ask them about finding people dead on the side of the road or in their apartments? Ask them about the pain families go through dealing with all that… Yall need to stop this TDS bs
These are the same hypocrites that knows about the atrocities of Maduro that he carries out on his own people..that same dictator president that was voted out of office by his own people, but refuse to leave office, and they said nothing or did nothing.
Now here are all these same hypocrites banging their mouth about some drug cartels boats getting blown up.
Ask the people of Venezuela if they want this defacto president to be removed, and they will tell you yes. Don’t blame the US for doing the job that you weaklings are afraid to do.
Maduro should be removed from office asap, that’s what the people of Venezuela wants.
Venezuela who was once the richest nation in the southern hemisphere, and is now one of the poorest, how?
Y’all need to keep quiet if y’all do not know the truth of the matter. A country that’s so rich in natural resources, but yet still millions are living in poverty and slums..
So figure that one out before y’all just chat chat chat.