\Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.
The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.
The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to “promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere”. The US is a member, and in March the Trump administration’s state department wrote: “The United States is pleased to be a strong supporter of the IACHR and is committed to continuing support for the Commission’s work and its independence. Preserving the IACHR’s autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.”
We have drones, so can’t we just follow these boats to their dock and then arrest everyone? And pressure them to give evidence against their bosses? WTF is there to gain by murdering the driver of the boss’s vehicle? Mules are a dime-a-dozen.
That’s too complicated and doesn’t make for good entertainment. Blowing people up in a boat on video is a spectacle. It’s a short propaganda bit you can broadcast in the news and on social media showing the people that you are strong and doing something against all the evil attacking the US in a way the target audience understands.
This is not about really solving a problem, it’s for show.
Oh I know, just pointing out that not only is it a pointless smoke show for the faithful, but it actively hinders trying to roll up these organizations by killing the very people that could help us take them down.
You’re completely correct here, and that makes the whole burning shitbin even worse.