A boat in the Eastern Pacific just moments before it was destroyed, and everyone on board killed, by the US military in a bombing on Sunday, April 26, 2026…. While no specific evidence was provided publicly to back up the claims made by SOUTHCOM about Sunday’s strike, human rights experts and legal scholars have made clear for months that such lethal operations at sea—whether or not those targeted are in fact trafficking drugs—have no justification under international maritime law and that the extrajudicial killings should be seen for what they are: cold-blooded murder.