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What is the military status of mercenary's in a war/conflict ?

thecommietommy · 2013-01-01 13:46:39

Watching the as usual excellent historical documentary on TG4, Congo 1961 - Scaradh Katanga, thinking of the mainly Belgian mercenary's I started to wonder how are they treated under international military rules in a conflict/war ? Like POW's or what ?

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#32 20-01-2013 9:12pm
mattjack

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tac foley wrote: »

One thing you got right there, Sir. Neither the PDF nor its predecessor, the Free State Army has ever been involved in any general war, anywhere on the planet, in their entire existence, and are therefore, unremarkably, much less likely to have been involved in any accusation of conduct that does not follow the Rules of Engagement between declared combatants.

Those 'breaches of the laws of war' questions seem to have resurrected from their 19-year-old grave expressly for that purpose, so if not making for waves/accusations/pointing fingers, and muck-raking, what then IS the point of this thread?

tac

I thought you were not going to post here any more.

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#33 20-01-2013 9:14pm
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Darnit. You got me there.

tac

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