
In one year since September 2025, the United States military has reportedly attacked 68 vessels, beyond the territorial sea of any State, which allegedly involved drug trafficking by criminal groups designated as “terrorist” under national law, killing at least 223 people…. The United States military attacks are, however, contrary to international law, violate the human right to life, and plausibly constitute crimes against humanity. They have been condemned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations independent experts, the President of the International Narcotics Control Board, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, many international lawyers, and civil society actors.