特立尼达和多巴哥两名失踪男子的家人在失踪一周年之际，呼吁美国承担责任。
The families of two missing men from the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago have marked the one-year anniversary of their disappearance by calling for accountability from the United States.
自去年九月以来，美国军方一直在加勒比海和东太平洋地区对小型船只发动攻击，理由是这些船只正在运输“恐怖毒贩”。
Since September last year, the US military has undertaken a campaign of attacking small boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, on the basis that they were transporting “narco-terrorists”.
但批评者称这些船只袭击是一场非法的、超司法的杀戮行动。周三，查德·约瑟夫和里希·萨马鲁的家人发表声明，纪念这两名男子，他们表示这两人是在2025年10月14日的一次美国船只袭击中被杀害的。
But critics have called the boat strikes an illegal campaign extrajudicial killings On Wednesday, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo issued a statement remembering the two men, who they said were killed in one of the US boat strikes on October 14, 2025.
目前，这些家人正在马萨诸塞州提起错误致死诉讼，并得到美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）的支持。他们主张约瑟夫和萨马鲁是渔民和农场工人，而非毒品贩子。
The families are currently pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit in the state of Massachusetts, supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). They have argued that Joseph and Samaroo were fishermen and farm workers, not drug-traffickers.
“自查德离开我们的生活以来，这一年对我们来说是毁灭性的。查德是我们家庭的心脏。他充满爱心、慷慨、体贴，一直都在我们身边。我们都非常想他，”约瑟夫的母亲莱诺尔·伯恩利说。
“The last year has been devastating without Chad in our lives. Chad was the heart of our family. He was loving, generous and caring and always there for us. We all miss him terribly,” said Joseph’s mother, Lenore Burnley.
“一年后，我们仍在悲痛中，并为他的死寻求正义。我们将永远哀悼失去查德，但希望这起诉讼能为他和家人伸张正义迈出一步。”2025年10月14日的袭击中，另有四人遇难，当时一枚导弹击中了一艘正从委内瑞拉返回特立尼达和多巴哥的船只。家人表示，萨马鲁和约瑟夫当时正在委内瑞拉工作，以养家糊口。两人在启程返回岛屿前两天曾给家人打过电话。此后再无音讯。
“A year later, we are still grieving and seeking justice for his death. We will always mourn losing Chad but hope that this lawsuit will be a step towards justice for him and the family.”Four other people were killed in the attack on October 14, 2025, when a missile struck a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from nearby Venezuela. The families have said Samaroo and Joseph had been working in Venezuela to support their families. Both men called their families two days before embarking on the trip home to the islands. They were never heard from again.
这场船只袭击行动是在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普领导下发动的，自2025年9月以来已造成至少239人死亡。
The boat strike campaign, launched under US President Donald Trump, has killed at least 239 people since September 2025.
但美国政府几乎未提供证据来证明其主张，即船上人员正在贩毒。它也没有公开遇难者的身份。
But the US government has provided little evidence to prove its claims that those on board were trafficking drugs. It has also not publicly identified the victims.
在几起案例中 — — 从哥伦比亚到厄瓜多尔，再到特立尼达和多巴哥 — — 亲属站出来表示，他们的亲人是遇难者之一，并且他们是与毒品贸易毫无关联的渔民。
In several cases — from Colombia to Ecuador to Trinidad and Tobago — relatives have stepped forward to say that their loved ones were among those killed, and that they were fishermen with no connection to the drug trade.
哥伦比亚渔民亚历杭德罗·卡兰萨的家人另外向美洲人权委员会提出投诉，指控特朗普政府在2025年9月15日 allegedly 轰炸其船只时，侵犯了他生存权。
Separately, the family of Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranza has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, accusing the Trump administration of violating his right to life when it allegedly bombed his boat on September 15, 2025.
萨马鲁和约瑟夫的诉讼于1月提交，目前正在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿市的联邦法院审理。
Samaroo and Joseph’s lawsuit was filed in January and is being heard by a US federal court in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
“我们家庭每天都在思念我们的弟弟里希，”萨马鲁最小的妹妹萨莉卡尔·科拉辛格说。
“Not a day goes by when our family doesn’t think about our brother Rishi,” said Sallycar Korasingh, Samaroo’s youngest sister.
“里希是个好人，深受家人和社区的爱戴。失去他一年来，我们的生活充满心碎。我兄弟和家人应得正义。我们将继续为答案和我们应得的问责而战。” 法学学者指出，即使遇难者涉及犯罪活动，这些袭击仍构成司法外杀戮。
“Rishi was a good person, loved by his family and community. The last year without him in our lives has been heartbreaking. My brother and family deserve justice. We will continue fighting for answers and the accountability we deserve.”Legal scholars have noted that, even if those killed were involved in criminal activity, the strikes would still amount to extrajudicial killings.
根据国际法，使用军事力量进行民事执法通常是非法的。毒品贩运不被视为战争行为，而被视为民事犯罪。
Under international law, it is generally illegal to use military force for civilian law enforcement. Drug trafficking is not considered an act of war, but rather a civilian crime.
“如今一年来，我们的当事人不得不在没有亲人、没有正义的情况下生活，这一切都是以特朗普总统的无法无天的杀戮行动之名进行的，”美国公民自由联盟国家安全项目的工作人员律师杰夫·斯坦说。
“For a year now, our clients have had to live without their loved ones and without justice in the name of President Trump’s lawless killing campaign,” said Jeff Stein, staff attorney with ACLU’s National Security Project.
该组织正代表这些家庭提起诉讼，同时也得到了宪法权利中心的支持。
The group is representing the families in their lawsuit, along with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
“这些非法的海上袭击摧毁了无数家庭，令社区陷入恐惧，也让我们所有人都变得不那么安全，”斯坦说。“我们不会停止为问责而战。我们敦促国会和行政部门的领导人，在再有人死亡之前，终于结束这场非法行动。”
“These illegal strikes at sea have devastated countless families, terrified communities, and made us all less safe,” Stein said. “We won’t stop fighting for accountability. We urge leaders in both Congress and the executive branch to finally end this illegal campaign before anyone else is killed.”