UN rapporteur finds reasonable grounds that 68 U.S. boat strikes killing 223 were crimes against humanity

Ben Saul called the strikes serial extrajudicial killings and rejected Trump's self-defense claim to Congress, finding no armed attack on the U.S. that would trigger that right; the latest strike, Saturday in the Caribbean, killed four.

• 68 strikes, 223 dead since September 2025 per Saul's report; a Washington Office on Latin America tally counts 234 killed in 66 attacks.
• The operation, "Southern Spear," began in early September 2025; officials have not offered definitive evidence the targeted boats were trafficking.
• Southern Command said Saturday's target had "confirmed intelligence" of narco-trafficking and called the four dead "narco-terrorists."