Video: 3 killed in an American strike on a boat suspected of drug smuggling in the Caribbean
3 people were killed on Monday in US strike targeted a boat that Washington suspected was being used in Drug smuggling at sea The Caribbean, according to what the US Army announced.
Since September, US forces have been targeting boats suspected of being used to smuggle Drugs, and Monday’s strike raised the death toll from these strikes to at least 150.
The US Southern Command said that "The boat was crossing known drug trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and participating in drug smuggling operations"
The Southern Command’s post on the "Drug terrorists" They are active in Latin America.
But it did not provide any evidence that the targeted boats were involved in drug smuggling, which raised major questions about the legality of these strikes.
Experts in international law and human rights organizations say that the strikes may amount to extrajudicial killings, as they are believed to have included civilians who do not pose a direct threat to the United States.
Washington deployed a large naval force in the Caribbean region, and in recent months it targeted boats suspected of being used in drug smuggling, seized oil tankers, and carried out a lightning military operation that resulted in the arrest of leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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