United States: Year of Extrajudicial Killings at Sea

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, December 16, 2025. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo (Washington, DC, September 2, 2026) – Today marks one year since the United States began an unlawful campaign of lethal military strikes targeting vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming 227 lives. US officials should be urgently held to account for these killings,…

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