UN human rights chief: US military strikes on alleged drug boats ‘unacceptable’

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

US military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the UN human rights chief said.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark the first such condemnation of its kind from a United Nations organisation.