"The families of two men killed in a boat strike in the Caribbean in October are suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, were returning from Venezuela to Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago, on Oct. 14 when their boat was struck by a U.S. missile. The two Trinidadian men were among six people killed in the strike, the fifth attack on what the Trump administration says were suspected drug-carrying vessels."
"The attacks, carried out in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean under the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, have killed at least 116 people in 36 strikes since early September. Ten other people who could not be located following the strikes are also believed to be dead, bringing the death toll to at least 126."
"These premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification, the complaint alleges. They are simply murders, ordered by individuals at the highest levels of government and obeyed by military officers in the chain of command. The attacks are the heinous acts of people who claim they can abuse their power with impunity around the world, according to Brett Max Kaufman, senior counsel at the ACLU."
U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since early September have killed at least 116 people in 36 strikes, with ten others presumed dead, raising the death toll to at least 126. Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, were among six killed when a boat returning from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago was struck by a U.S. missile on Oct. 14. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts alleges the strikes are manifestly unlawful because the United States is not engaged in an armed conflict. Civil rights groups contend the killings were premeditated, intentional, and lack legal justification, and call for accountability for senior officials and military officers who ordered and carried out the attacks.
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