Referring only to mercenary individuals allowed a mercenary company to operate without liability.

The definition identified a mercenary, but did not refer to companies which were mercenary in nature.

The Act defined mercenary activity as direct participation as a combatant in armed conflict for private gain and drew a distinction between mercenary activity and the legitimate provision of military assistance.

(f) A new element to the new definition should be mercenary company .

Another possibility would be to introduce a separate clause on mercenary companies.

Other experts felt that that was a fair characterization of mercenary activity.

(b) To create and maintain a database on mercenary activities and national legislation

That indicated a need to link mercenary activity with other crimes under international law.

OVERVIEW of CURRENT GLOBAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE MERCENARY PHENOMENON

The crime was defined as participation of a mercenary in armed conflict or military actions .

The Queen returned to England with a small mercenary army in 1326, moving rapidly across England.

Firstly, most African States dealt with mercenary activities under their criminal codes.

Mercenary like activities were also regulated under laws dealing with terrorist organizations.

8. Invites States to investigate the possibility of mercenary involvement whenever criminal acts of a terrorist nature occur

In several States, the definition of a mercenary adopted the formulation in article 47 of Additional Protocol I.

Invites States to investigate the possibility of mercenary involvement whenever and wherever criminal acts of a terrorist nature occur

Any serious criminal offence of mercenary activity required a specific intention to commit or knowledge of the criminal activity.

Notably, laws regulating mercenary activity in the NIS were regularly applied in practice.

(d) To consider the implications for private companies with respect to mercenary activities.

If participation of a foreign national in an armed conflict for payment was sufficient to be considered mercenary, then the reality was that almost all the support services of the armed forces that many Western countries employed should be considered mercenary and criminal.

In the light of the experience of mercenarism in this region, a redefinition of the term mercenary would seem appropriate.

Furthermore, the use of children for mercenary activities must be seen as an aggravating factor.

(d) In the traditional definition, one of the core identifiers of a mercenary was that he was not a national of a party to the conflict.

To arm the rebel groups is, perhaps inevitably, also to arm their terrorist and mercenary allies.

In particular, regional mechanisms should be explored further as ways of controlling and monitoring mercenary activity.

The traditional concept of a mercenary, though, was inadequate to an understanding of the different types of military forces employed during the wars.

Proliferation of small arms and light weapons and mercenary activities threats to peace and security in West Africa.

The report and the proposed legal definition of a mercenary should encapsulate the general problem of mercenarism as well as its more specific regional aspects.

In general, only certain mercenary groups, not terrorist groups, have the capacity to threaten the existence of a State, and then only a small or poorly defended one.

The cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, with extremely high levels of private security and mercenary activity, were somewhat exceptional.

In light of the mercenary phenomenon in Russia and the NIS, the experts proposed that the 1989 Convention should

That factor had influenced the States' interests in drafting legislation to combat mercenarism and the particular view taken in regard to the definition of a mercenary.

Or it may be an explicit bias an economist might write a report that is influenced by what a sponsor wants to hear, or give testimony that is purely mercenary.

The experts expressed the following views in regard to the proposed new legal definition of a mercenary contained in paragraph 47 of the former Special Rapporteur's report.

Volunteer soldiers including many non citizens and mercenary units for manpower reduce even further the reasons for voters to care.

(c) To monitor mercenaries and mercenary related activities in all their forms and manifestations in different parts of the world

Mercenary activity in relation to the war on drugs was largely financed and supported by the United States, which perceived drugs as a threat to its national security.

A few weeks ago, a previously unknown organization called The Martyr s Brigade claimed credit for attacks on Delta pipelines, raising concerns among multinationals that mercenary resistance in the region is becoming ideological.

In terms of the criminalization of mercenary activity, there was a need to distinguish between those acts that were already crimes under international law and those that required criminalization.

A draft amendment to the article was currently before the Legislative Assembly, which sought to allow the prosecution of persons who committed mercenary acts outside the territory of Russia.

It was suggested that aggravating elements such as the use of children and refugees to carry out mercenary activity should be added.

There might be a contradiction in the text by defining a mercenary as a person recruited for the purpose of denying self determination in (iv), and also undermining the territorial integrity of a State in (ii).

When in France it absorbed the remnants of a number of other Scottish mercenary units which had fought in Swedish service, and by 1635 had swelled to some 8,000 men.

With respect to the objective To give further consideration to the proposed new legal definition of a mercenary as contained in paragraph 47 of the report of the Special Rapporteur

The Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act 1998 in South Africa, by contrast, prohibited engagement in mercenary activity within and outside the State.