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Trump admin rocked as UN human terror expert alleges 'crimes against humanity of murder'

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The United Nations official charged with policing counterterrorism hammered Donald Trump's year of lethal boat strikes, warning they may be crimes against humanity . In a September briefing note, UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul concluded the campaign amounts to "serial extrajudicial killings," counting at least 223 people killed in 68 strikes across the Caribbean and Pacific since September 2025. He delivered a damning conclusion. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," the note stated. Saul also flagged several vessels sunk with no claim of responsibility, including the Ecuadoran fishing boat Fiorella, which lost eight of its 10 crew members to disappearance. That case reached the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearancesm and the prosecutor assigned to the boat cases is now dead. Alexandra Bravo was gunned down in Manta on June 14, 2026, when a hitman on