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extrajudicial killings? isn't that a sterile euphemism for murder ?
> Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that drone strikes carried out in Haiti over the past year have killed at least 1,243 people, including 17 children, many of whom had no apparent links to the criminal groups the attacks seek to squash. > Launched by Haitian law enforcement forces and private contractors working for Vectus Global between March 1, 2025, and Jan. 21, 2026, the strikes also injured at least 738 pe…
My understanding that 100% were killed extrajudicially. Only hope that when it comes to US the drones would carry Tasers.
> Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that drone strikes carried out in Haiti over the past year have killed at least 1,243 people, including 17 children, many of whom had no apparent links to the criminal groups the attacks seek to squash. > Launched by Haitian law enforcement forces and private contractors working for Vectus Global between March 1, 2025, and Jan. 21, 2026, the strikes also injured at least 738 pe…
> private contractors Mercenaries with drones, just great.
They deserve recognition for maintaining the standards of good journalism in what is, by any measure, a difficult era.
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That's a luxury you get when your society has reached a certain level of stability.
People's rights are not luxuries, but the purpose of government: "... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men ...". They are a necessity to achieve freedom and stability.
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Ghenghis khan?
A different model of war and Empire. Yes brutal, for the defenders of the castles and fortified cities they conquered. But again, very targeted at key sites so as to assert an Imperial-vassal relationship. Not to really to metamorph the populace, and run the day to day, which was left to local leadership. Their point was to demonstratively subjugate for the purposes of control and tribute, not to kill, replace, or ev…
The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against. [0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti
Since when are drone strikes the legal way to handle criminals. I remember something with trials before you can kill people.
The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against. [0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti
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Haven't heard this name before, would someone care to fill me in on a tl;dr? Sounds horrendous.
Pretty much private mercenaries that work outside of the usual army structure as "private contractors". They're usually the ones the US contracts to do the worst atrocities, as that gives the government a thin veneer of plausible deniability because they were behaving "independently". The US also does its best to make sure they never face any legal consequences for their war crimes. Also worth pointing out that, due…
This has happened throughout history in war, before even recorded history.
Russia is doing it right now with North Koreans. Also with Wagner Group, until they had their little uprising against Putin and then their plane happened to crash.
If we can get AI further into this process, we can fully launder all responsibility from the humans ordering these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...