Day 226
September 2, 2025
5 documented events
- War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Extrajudicial Killing
Operation Southern Spear: Lethal Drone Strikes on Caribbean and Pacific Drug Boats
Since September 2, 2025, the US military has conducted at least 26 drone strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean under Operation Southern Spear, killing at least 95 people. The very first strike included a 'double tap' follow-up attack that killed shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.
From: Operation Southern Spear: Lethal Drone Strikes on Caribbean and Pacific Drug Boats
- Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Deportation & Immigration
Judge issues broader TRO blocking all Guatemalan child deportations
Judge Sooknanan issues a broader temporary restraining order blocking deportation of all unaccompanied Guatemalan children in US custody who do not have deportation orders, covering the nearly 700 children the government had planned to remove.
From: Midnight Deportation of 76 Guatemalan Children: Labor Day Weekend Mass Removal Attempt
- Serious Rights Violation Foreign Policy & War
Caribbean drug boat strikes begin
The first in a series of lethal strikes on suspected drug boats began, killing at least 95 people by December 2025 with no civilian harm review mechanisms in place.
From: Dismantlement of Pentagon Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Program
- Serious Rights Violation Military Overreach
Federal court finds 'willful' Posse Comitatus violation
Judge Charles Breyer ruled the administration 'willfully' violated the Posse Comitatus Act through 'a top-down, systemic effort to use military troops to execute various sectors of federal law.'
From: Military Deployments at US-Mexico Border in Violation of Posse Comitatus Act
- War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Federal Dismantlement
Remaining USAID employees separated
The final wave of forced separations took effect. Residual functions were nominally transferred to the State Department, though the institutional capacity to manage global development programs had been effectively destroyed.
From: Systematic Dismantlement of USAID and Global Humanitarian Consequences