"Most international legal experts reject that and say the attacks amount to murder. Even if the claim of being at war is justified, specialists in the laws of war say the use of a plane disguised to look like a civilian aircraft, so that its targets would be caught off-guard, would represent the war crime of perfidy under international and US military legal standards."
"The Trump administration went on to kill more than 120 people in 35 separate attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, in what it said was a counter-narcotics campaign in the run-up to this month's direct attack on Venezuela. The Pentagon has justified the killings on the grounds that the US is at war with drug trafficking cartels. Most international legal experts reject that and say the attacks amount to murder."
A US aircraft that struck a suspected drug‑trafficking boat in the Caribbean was disguised as a civilian plane and had its munitions hidden inside the fuselage. The 2 September attack killed 11 Venezuelans, including two survivors who were bombed again while clinging to wreckage. The Venezuelan government denied the dead were gang members, and no proof of drug‑smuggling involvement was presented. The Trump administration then conducted 35 attacks that killed over 120 people in a counter‑narcotics campaign. The Pentagon framed the actions as a war on cartels; most international legal experts reject that claim and call the attacks murder. Legal specialists say disguising a military aircraft as civilian to surprise targets would constitute perfidy, a war crime, and would risk a corrosive slippery slope.
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