Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said the United States' attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific are violations of international human rights law.
Türk said in a statement Friday that the attacks, which have killed 60 people, are "unacceptable."
Since Sept. 2, the U.S. military has attacked boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific that the President Donald Trump administration has said were smuggling drugs to the United States. The administration has offered no evidence of the allegation.
"These attacks -- and their mounting human cost -- are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them," Türk said.
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