UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk:

"Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific violate international human rights law.

Over 60 people have reportedly been killed in a continuing series of attacks carried out by US armed forces against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, in circumstances that find no justification in international law.

These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them."