Dec 5 (Reuters) – The family of a Colombian man who they say was killed in a U.S. airstrike off Colombia’s coast has taken their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, seeking accountability for deadly U.S. attacks in recent months in the Caribbean and the Pacific, their lawyer said.

At least 83 people have been killed through targeted missile strikes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ratchets up an offensive against what it has said are drug-trafficking boats.

Alejandro Carranza, a 42-year-old fisherman, was killed in a September 15 military strike off Colombia’s Pacific coast, according to the complaint filed by his family and U.S. lawyer Daniel Kovalik with the commission this week.

The complaint accuses the U.S. of an extrajudicial killing and human rig

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