Canada risks complicity in the high-seas killings committed by the U.S.

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Canada's military has played a role in U.S. anti-drug operations in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since 2006.

Michael Byers has taught the laws of war at the universities of British Columbia, Duke and Tel Aviv.

The video is grainy , but the outcome is clear.

A small boat speeds across the ocean with 11 people on board. After a white flash, it comes to a stop, empty and burning.

According to analysis by the Project Ploughshares research institute, the video shows the distinctive on-screen interface of an L3Harris Wescam targeting system, as employed by the U.S. military on MQ-9 Reaper drones.

When U.S. President Donald Trump posted the video on Sept. 2, he claimed the targets were “Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists … in international waters transporting illegal narcot