Killer Rabbit 90US: Other Countries Should Push Back on Lawless Executions at Sea https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/12/09/us-other-countries-should-push-back-on-lawless-executions-at-sea #Canada #EU #UK #uspoli #murder #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #illegal #InternationalLaw
"Murder on the High Seas": War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump's Boat Strikes https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/8/pete_hegseth_boat_strikes_war_crimes #uspoli #TrumpWarCrimes #PeteHegsethWarCrimes #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
“Murder on the High Seas”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump’s Boat Strikes
Pressure is growing on the Trump administration to release video of a U.S. airstrike on September 2 that killed two men who were left shipwrecked in the Caribbean after an initial U.S. strike on their vessel killed nine people. The Trump administration claims all of the passengers on the boat were involved in drug trafficking but has offered no proof. “This is no more a war on drugs than sending National Guard to Democratic cities is about fighting crime or attacking free speech on campuses is about protecting from antisemitism,” says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody, who calls the strikes “murder on the high seas.” He argues, “They’re just making this stuff up, and basically they’re forcing the debate into their own terms.”
"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/boat_strikes #uspoli #WarCrimes #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #ColombianFishermen #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #illegal #InternationalLaw
“Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes since September. The U.S. has not provided proof as to the vessels’ activities or the identities of those on board who were targeted, but now the family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the military strikes. In a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the family says a strike on September 15 killed 42-year-old Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a fisherman from Santa Marta and father of four. His family says he was fishing for tuna and marlin off Colombia’s Caribbean coast when his boat was bombed, and was not smuggling drugs. “Alejandro was murdered,” says international human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who filed the legal petition on behalf of the family. “This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”
"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/boat_strikes #uspoli #WarCrimes #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #ColombianFishermen #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #illegal #InternationalLaw
“Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes since September. The U.S. has not provided proof as to the vessels’ activities or the identities of those on board who were targeted, but now the family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the military strikes. In a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the family says a strike on September 15 killed 42-year-old Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a fisherman from Santa Marta and father of four. His family says he was fishing for tuna and marlin off Colombia’s Caribbean coast when his boat was bombed, and was not smuggling drugs. “Alejandro was murdered,” says international human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who filed the legal petition on behalf of the family. “This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”
Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/pete-hegseth-strikes-venezuela-congress/685156/ #uspoli #WarCrimes #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #InternationalLaw #illegal #inhuman #fascism #ManufacturedWar #PedoPresident
Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them https://theintercept.com/2025/12/05/boat-strike-survivors-double-tap/ #uspoli #WarCrimes #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #illegal #murder #InternationalLaw
Pentagon Claims It “Absolutely” Knows Who It Killed in Boat Strikes. Prove It, Lawmaker Says. https://theintercept.com/2025/12/04/boat-strikes-evidence-hegseth/ #uspoli #DHS #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #WarCrime #Pentagon
Bipartisan House Resolution Seeks to Block Trump War With Venezuela https://theintercept.com/2025/12/02/house-block-trump-venezuela-war/ #uspoli #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #ManufacturedWar
"A War Crime & Murder": David Cole on US Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/2/david_cole #uspoli #TrumpWarCriminal #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #WarCrimes #Venezuela #ManufacturedWar
“A War Crime & Murder”: David Cole on U.S. Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean
As bipartisan criticism intensifies over U.S. attacks on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the White House is defending a September 2 operation that killed 11 people. The Washington Post reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second attack to kill two survivors of an initial strike, an order that legal experts say would constitute a war crime. The White House on Monday confirmed the second strike but said the authorization came not from Hegseth, but from Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, then head of Joint Special Operations Command. This comes as Hegseth threatens to court-martial Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a former naval officer, after Kelly and five other Democratic veterans urged service members to refuse unlawful commands. “Killing civilians who are not engaged in armed conflict against us is a war crime,” says law professor David Cole of Georgetown University.
Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say https://theintercept.com/2025/12/02/hegseth-boat-strikes-war-crime-venezuela/ #uspoli #TrumpWarCriminal #PeteHegsethWarCriminal #VenezuelanBoatStrikes #murder #ManufacturedWar
