Drug 'War'
Pardon my absence, financial, domestic issues...* Trump’s ‘War’ The United States Military Code of Justice specifically prohibits firing on Shipwrecked Survivors – The most notorious case was the Peleus incident of March 1944, which became a landmark prosecution for war crimes at sea. After the German U-boat U-852 sank the Greek freighter Peleus in the South Atlantic, Commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to systematically machine-gun survivors on life rafts and in the water for several hours . https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1997/february/peleus-war-crimes-trial The Peleus was bound from Freetown to the River Plate... 'Nobody on the tramp saw the surfaced U-boat chasing them; consequently, by 19:20hrs. the U-852 was only 600 yards away when Eck fired two torpedoes, both of which hit the target on the starboard side and caused devastating damage. The ship sank in less than three minutes, with no time to launch the lif...