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Quoting teaschip1: This has been proved to be a myth, Alameda. Please do your research and come up with some factual truth instead of posting links you just happen to read. Your really making yourself look real good here lately with all of your stupid responses and links that have no relative value. |
Excuse me teaschip1...read more:
International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
The Convention defines a mercenary as any person who:
* Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in armed conflict
* Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and functions in the armed forces of that party
* Is neither a national of a party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a party to the conflict
* Is not a member of armed forces of a party to the conflict
* Has not been sent by a State which is not a party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces
States party to the convention affirm "that the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries should be considered as offences of grave concern to all States and that any person committing any of these-offences should be either prosecuted or extradited"; and
Are concerned "at new unlawful international activities linking drug traffickers and mercenaries in the perpetration of violent actions which undermine the constitutional order of the States"; and
Are convinced that the adoption of this convention "would contribute to the eradication of these nefarious activities and thereby to observance of the purposes and the principles enshrined in the Charter"; and
Are "convinced of the necessity to develop and enhance international co-operation among the States for the prevention, prosecution and punishment of such offenders."[4]
The twenty-two States that have completed the constitutional procedures that bind them to the Convention are: Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Italy, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Qatar, saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Suriname, Togo, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay and Uzbekistan.
The nine other States that have signed but not ratified it are: Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, Morocco, Nigeria, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. The United States has not signed.
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