Interior minister says ‘murder has been committed’ amid rising tensions over US military strike on boat in Caribbean
None of the 11 people killed in a US military strike on a boat in the Caribbean last week were members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s interior minister has said, as the South American country deployed troops amid heightened tensions with the US.
The administration of Donald Trump has said the boat was transporting illegal narcotics, but has provided scant further information about the incident, even amid demands from members of the US Congress for a justification for the action.
“They openly confessed to killing 11 people,” the interior minister and ruling party head, Diosdado Cabello, said on state television. “We have done our investigations here in our country and there are the families of the disappeared people who want their relatives, and when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers.
Doesn’t matter. It’s a war crime either way.
It does matter, actually.
First off, war crimes don’t matter. Saying something is a “war crime” is akin to saying “and they got away with it.” Just look at Ukraine and Israel.
Second, if these people were gangbangers, they deserved what they got.
Gangbangers are the dredge of human society and anyone who defends them is a child who should not be taken seriously.
Regardless of whether they deserved it, they are afforded all rights that we also are. In this case, lawful arrests and representation.
Like I said I’m just curious. Although there is no war so I think mass murder is maybe a more appropriate term?
It is a war crime as defined by the International Court. You don’t have to be in a formal war to commit a war crime.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a war crime if there’s no way to prosecute anyone.
Yeah, but it makes the poster feel good about himself.