GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief has condemned the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats that it says are being used to smuggle drugs from South America, saying that they violate international law and should be investigated.

Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement released Friday that there was no justification under international law for the strikes, which have killed at least 61 people since the start of September.

“These attacks — and their mounting human cost — are unacceptable,” he said, in blunt criticism of the United States. “The U.S. 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.”

Türk’s stateme

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