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"Murder as Policy": Amnesty Int'l Decries U.S. Strikes on Latin American Boats as Death Toll Tops 200

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Guests - Amanda Klasingnational director of government relations and advocacy at Amnesty International USA. More than 200 people have now been killed in U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Since September, the Pentagon has struck more than 60 vessels, claiming, without evidence, that the boats were engaged in “narco-trafficking” operations. Human rights groups have...
The strongest version of this narrative is that the U.S. military is conducting targeted strikes on boats suspected of drug trafficking, framing these operations as necessary to combat "narco-terrorism." Proponents might argue that the classified nature of the operations is justified by national security concerns and that the strikes disrupt criminal networks. However, the lack of public evidence, the classification of legal justifications, and the celebration of these killings by high-ranking o...