The family of a Colombian man who was killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean has filed a formal complaint to a leading human rights agency, arguing the man’s death was an extrajudicial killing.

The petition filed by U.S.-based human rights lawyer Daniel Kovalik, on behalf of the family of Alejandro Carranza, says he was killed after the U.S. military bombed his fishing boat on Sept. 15 while he was sailing along Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and that his death violated human rights conventions.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received the petition on Tuesday, which was first reported by The Guardian . Because the U.S. does not recognize the existence of an international court associated with the human rights body, any recommendations

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