Legal experts have raised concerns US forces may have committed a war crime by killing survivors of initial strike
The Pentagon will not make public the full video of a September attack in the Caribbean that killed two individuals as they were clinging to the wreckage of a burning boat, Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday.
The strike has been the most controversial development in Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela, which has seen US forces blow up vessels alleged to be transporting narcotics from the South American country to the United States, seize an oil tanker and threaten further military action against the president, Nicolás Maduro.
Legal experts have raised concerns that US forces may have committed a war crime by killing the survivors of an initial air strike on 2 September, and that the campaign is illegal. Democrats have called for the release of video detailing that attack, and Trump at one point supported making the footage public but later backtracked and deferred to Hegseth.
But, if you’ve got nothing to hide…
A LEGALLY JUSTIFIABLE DOUBLE TAP STRIKE
ON SHIPWRECKED ENEMY COMBATANTS
IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS
ALL RECORDED ON VIDEO SO WE CAN CORROBORATE THE STORY YOU’RE TELLING US?
Yes.
May I see it?
…no.
SEYMOUR, THE VIDEO IS OF A WARCRIME!
No, mother. That’s just the northern strikes.
So it’s even worse than we assume?
From what I heard [a Democratic representative say] the two victims were holding on to wreckage, barely staying afloat, for an hour before they were killed.
Yep, kinda goes against the “they were going for weapons bullshit” and that’s ignoring that drones tend to operate far far outside small arms range. There’s also very little evidence that a navy asset was anywhere in the area to be fired at.
And to add that people shooting at a drone is not any kind of true danger to human life and so obliterating them from the skies is kinda ridiculous.
probably no Fog of war, just smoke from burning corpses
Why? We paid for those murders, hand over the goods so we can assess what we got for the money.
The death of multiple evil drug kingpins with several tonnes of fentanyl headed for Miami. Trust me bro.
Source: I said trust me bro.
Bro… trust me
Government produced snuff films.
Some real Oryx and Crake shit
I mean if I committed a war crime, I would not willingly post the video on YouTube.
They are getting tired of supplying all the evidence needed for their trial.
It’ll be shown at your tribunal you criminal fuck.
What’s the penalty for murder?
It’s a war crime so Nobel Peace Prize.
If I were him I wouldn’t be concerned about the murder, I would be concerned about the violations of the Geneva convention.
