United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres echoed a statement issued by the UN human rights chief which urges the United States to halt airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, a UN spokesperson said.

Earlier in the day, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in the statement that the United States “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.”

“Over 60 people have reportedly been killed in a continuing series of attacks carried out by US armed forces against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, in circumstances that find no justification in international law,” the statement said.

Ravina Shamdasa

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