Re: Life begins to copy GZG.....
From: "Donogh McCarthy" <donoghmc@h...>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:30:24 +0000
Subject: Re: Life begins to copy GZG.....
<html><div style='background-color:'><P>There's been a spate of articles
on this subject (in the Financial Times) over the last few days, and on
the back of that I had a look around and found the following
article:</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.caat.org.uk/research/Mercenaries_Body.html">http://www.
caat.org.uk/research/Mercenaries_Body.html</A></P>
<P>Very (on foot of our ramblings about what counts as a mercenary)
interesting is this passage:</P>
<P>"The Angolan government put their captives on trial for mercenarism,
but no such crime was then recognised in international law. Several
attempts were made to fill this gap: Article 47 of the 1977 Additional
Protocols of the Geneva Conventions...Article 47, which was never
ratified by France or US, piles up so many criteria for the
identification of mercenaries that it is legally unusable. As one
authority has remarked, ‘any mercenary who cannot exclude himself from
this definition deserves to be shot – and his lawyer with him’"</P>
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