"At least 87 people have been killed in Trump administration's strikes on alleged drug-smuggling vessels. Lawmakers in the United States have urged the release of a video of a controversial double-tap strike on a vessel in the Caribbean amid growing scrutiny of the legality of Washington's militarised anti-drug trafficking campaign. The bipartisan calls on Sunday came amid mounting controversy over revelations that military officials ordered a follow-up strike in the September 2 operation targeting a suspected drug-smuggling vessel, killing two survivors of the initial attack."
"They ought to release the video. If they release the video, then everything that the Republicans are saying will clearly be portrayed to be completely false, and people will get a look at it, and they will see, Smith said in an interview with the ABC News programme This Week with George Stephanopoulos. It seems pretty clear they don't want to release this video because they don't want people to see it because it's very, very difficult to justify, Smith added."
US military strikes against alleged drug-smuggling vessels have killed at least 87 people. Lawmakers urged release of video of a controversial double-tap strike in the Caribbean after revelations that a follow-up strike on September 2 killed two survivors of an initial attack. Democratic and Republican lawmakers viewed footage in a closed-door briefing and offered sharply different accounts: Democrats raised legal concerns and described the targeted vessel as incapacitated with survivors unarmed and without means of communication, while Republicans defended the strikes as justified. Top Democrats called for public release of the video so citizens can judge the operation.
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