US confirms 157 killed in maritime strikes experts call ‘extrajudicial’
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Defence official tells Congress that 47 alleged drug-trafficking vessels have been struck since campaign began.
The United States military has confirmed that at least 157 people have been killed in lethal strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats off Latin America, described as a campaign of extrajudicial killings by legal experts.
Senior defence official Joseph Humire said that 47 “narco-trafficking vessels” have been struck in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific since the campaign began in September, in a written statement to members of the US Congress.
Asked by lawmakers on Tuesday whether the quantity of drugs entering the US has gone down, Humire stated that the movement of drug-trafficking vessels had decreased by 20 percent in the Caribbean.
“We’ve measured the decrease in the movement of the vessels,” said Humire.
“But that’s a no in terms of the drugs actually getting into the US,” Representative Adam Smith responded.
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