"It said they vanished after telling their families they were about to take a boat home from Venezuela in mid-October. Trump announced on Oct. 14 that the military had attacked such a boat and killed six people. "These premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification," the complaint said. "Thus, they were simply murders, ordered by individuals at the highest levels of government and obeyed by military officers in the chain of command.""
""The Trump administration has claimed the killings are lawful - and not murders - because Trump "determined" that there is a formal state of armed conflict with a secret list of 24 drug cartels and gangs he has deemed terrorists. Outside experts in laws governing the use of lethal force broadly dispute that theory. Congress has not authorized any such armed conflict,""
Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. military boat strike filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston. The plaintiffs are the mother of Chad Joseph and the sister of Rishi Samaroo. The lawsuit alleges the men vanished after planning to take a boat from Venezuela and that the killings were premeditated and lacked legal justification, calling them murders ordered by high-level officials and carried out by military officers. The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights represent the plaintiffs and seek monetary damages against the U.S. government. The administration asserts the strikes are lawful under a claimed armed conflict with cartel networks, a position disputed by legal experts and lacking congressional authorization.
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