This screengrab of a video posted to Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, shows what Trump described as a Tren de Aragua boat carrying drugs from Venezuela. Donald Trump/Truth Social

The US military has killed scores of people — 83 and counting — in unprecedented military strikes on alleged drug boats.

But it is new revelations about the fate of nameless individuals who ultimately were killed in September in the first acknowledged military attack on a boat that have reignited a debate about the legality — or lack thereof — of the unprecedented US military campaign.

If it is true that an order was given specifically to kill the people as they clung to the side of a damaged boat, then Americans could be guilty of a war crime or murder, some military and l

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