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A human rights group has condemned a US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat on September 2 which killed all 11 people on board.

In a statement on September 5, Human Rights Watch director Sarah Yager said, “The US cannot simply use lethal force on anyone it wishes. Criminal suspects should be prosecuted in a court of law, not executed at sea.”

She added that the Trump administration had not advanced any kind of legal justification for this strike.