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Originally Posted by Skybird
I have read it. It's just that I do not agree. a mercenary is somebody who allows himself getting hired for money for war or war-like jobs outside his own national army and that nation's governmental soverignity.
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The law says different.
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French Foreign Legionnaires deploys and fights as an organized unit of the French Army. This means that as members of the armed forces of France these soldiers are not mercenary soldiers per APGC77 Art 47.e and APGC77 Art 47.f. of the Rules of War.
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Because you disagree with that law does not make it null and void.
On Columbia the only reference I have found is this in Pravda dated 2001:
The AUC (United Self-Defence of Columbia), which have mercenaries from the United States of America in their ranks, have been responsible for horrendous killings and torture of civilians in recent years.
http://english.pravda.ru/usa/2001/11/22/21621.html
This does not say American mercenary units as you stated. It's saying they have Americans in their ranks so it's not a U.S. government plot. Although the AUC is not known for targeting Americans, it has been explicitly linked to narco-trafficking, which deeply affects the United States. The AUC was designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department on Sept. 10, 2001.
As far as American sponsored merc units working for pharmaceutical companies I have not been able to find anything. If you can find anything I'm willing to look.