{"id":82824,"date":"2025-10-31T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/10\/31\/us-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats-unacceptable-un-human-rights-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:13:53","slug":"us-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats-unacceptable-un-human-rights-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2025\/10\/31\/us-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats-unacceptable-un-human-rights-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes on alleged drug boats \u2018unacceptable\u2019: UN human rights chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/10\/28\/hegseth-says-us-struck-3-alleged-drug-running-boats-monday-killing-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/10\/28\/hegseth-says-us-struck-3-alleged-drug-running-boats-monday-killing-14\/\">strikes against boats<\/a> in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are \u201cunacceptable\u201d and must stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk called for an investigation into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/10\/14\/us-strikes-another-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-off-venezuela-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/10\/14\/us-strikes-another-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-off-venezuela-coast\/\">strikes<\/a>, in what appeared to mark the first such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/10\/28\/us-troops-should-be-alarmed-at-trumps-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/10\/28\/us-troops-should-be-alarmed-at-trumps-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats\/\">condemnation<\/a> of its kind from a United Nations organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for T\u00fcrk\u2019s office, relayed his message on Friday at a regular U.N. briefing: \u201cThese attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said T\u00fcrk believed \u201cairstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has justified the attacks on the boats as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States, but the campaign against drug cartels has been divisive among countries in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/10\/24\/latest-us-strike-on-alleged-drug-running-boat-kills-6-hegseth-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/10\/24\/latest-us-strike-on-alleged-drug-running-boat-kills-6-hegseth-says\/\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> on Wednesday announced the latest U.S. military strike in the campaign, against a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. 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It was the 14th strike since the campaign began in early September, while the death toll has grown to at least 61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shamdasani noted the U.S. explanations of the efforts as an anti-drug and counter-terrorism campaign, but said countries have long agreed that the fight against illicit drug trafficking is a law-enforcement matter governed by \u201ccareful limits\u201d placed on the use of lethal force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intentional use of lethal force is allowed only as a last resort against someone representing \u201can imminent threat to life,\u201d she said. \u201cOtherwise, it would amount to a violation of the right of life and constitute extrajudicial killings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strikes are taking place \u201coutside the context\u201d of armed conflict or active hostilities, Shamdasani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.N. 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