So now the 47 regime is blowing up any small vessel they label a "drug boat."
They are murdering people in the Caribbean Sea in our name.
How long before enough people hear the voice of conscience for this nation to stop tolerating the intolerable?
...
Maritime law
The US is not a signatory to United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but the Department of Defense has previously said the US should “act in a manner consistent with its provisions”, external.
“Force can be used to stop a boat but generally this should be non-lethal measures,” said Luke Moffett of Queens University Belfast, and the use of aggressive tactics must be “reasonable and necessary in self-defence”.
Human rights law
Prof Moffett also says the use of force could amount to an “extrajudicial arbitrary killing” and “a fundamental violation of human rights”.
Under Article 2(4) of the UN charter, countries can resort to force when under attack and are exercising their military in self-defence.
But Prof Michael Becker of Trinity College Dublin told BBC Verify the US operation “stretches the meaning of the term beyond its breaking point”.
“The fact that US officials describe the individuals killed by the US strike as narco-terrorists does not transform them into lawful military targets,” he said..
.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c20700nnwz7t
= new reply since forum marked as read