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A priest conducts Mass throughout a memorial held by relations of Chad Joseph, whose household imagine he was killed in a U.S. navy strike on a ship within the Caribbean, at Saint Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago, on October 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
The condemnation on Friday (October 31, 2025) appeared to mark the primary of its sort from a United Nations organisation.
President Donald Trump has justified the assaults on the boats as a crucial escalation to stem the circulate of medication into the United States.
Volker Turk, the rights chief, referred to as for an investigation into the strikes, and stated greater than 60 individuals had reportedly been killed within the strikes on boats within the area since early September, stated UN human rights workplace spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
“These assaults and their mounting human price are unacceptable,” she instructed a UN briefing in Geneva on Friday.
She stated Mr. Turk believed “airstrikes by the United States of America on boats within the Caribbean and within the Pacific violate worldwide human rights regulation.” “These assaults and their mounting human price are unacceptable,” she added.
“The U.S. should halt such assaults and take all measures crucial to forestall the extrajudicial killing of individuals aboard these boats.” Ms. Shamdasani famous U.S. explanations of the efforts as an anti-drug and counter-terrorism marketing campaign, however stated international locations have lengthy agreed that the combat in opposition to illicit drug trafficking is a law-enforcement matter ruled by “cautious limits” positioned on the usage of deadly pressure.
Published – October 31, 2025 05:51 pm IST
