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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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US ‘drug boat’ strikes are illegal and need to be investigated, UN human rights chief says

The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean are “unacceptable” and must stop.

Volker Türk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark the first such condemnation of its kind from a United Nations organization.

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