A United Nations investigator has placed the United States before one of the oldest questions in the law of nations: by what right does a sovereign power take life beyond its borders? Ben Saul, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, concluded this week that Operation Southern Spear — 68 airstrikes across Caribbean and Pacific waters that killed at least 223 people — cannot be justified under any recognized framework of international law, and may constitute crimes against humanity. The operation, framed by Washington as a campaign against narco-terrorism, has unfolded against a sh
UN report says US drug boat strikes may constitute crimes against humanity
At least 223 people killed across 68 US airstrikes on vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific since September.