On Ryan’s Q (whether these killings meet the crimes against humanity threshold), some relevant paragraphs from the ICC decision confirming charges against Rodrigo Duterte for murder as a CAH in his “war on drugs”
(NB only one of “widespread” or “systematic” is needed)
www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
Tom Dannenbaum
With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes.
Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict).
200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity
www.justsecurity.org
A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers.
