Family Of Colombian Man Killed In U.S. Boat Strike Files Complaint Alleging Murder
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The complaint names U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as being responsible for the killing of fisherman Alejandro Carranza Medina.
The family of a Colombian fisherman has alleged the U.S. government illegally killed him when it launched a military boat strike in September.
Alejandro Carranza was killed on Sept. 15 when his boat was targeted in an anti-narcotics U.S. military campaign. On Tuesday, Carranza’s family filed a formal complaint against the U.S. government with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The complaint alleges that Carranza was simply fishing when his boat was targeted in the deadly strike. HIs family said there were no drugs on his boat.
“We know that Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, was responsible for ordering the bombing of boats like those of Alejandro Carranza Medina and the murder of all those on such boats,” the complaint says.
More than 80 people have been killed so far by U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s administration have argued that the extrajudicial killings are targeting drug smugglers.
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