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Mercenary / Private Military Companies (PMCs)

References

• Security Companies Doing Business in Iraq ND 2004 [American Citizen Services in Iraq, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State]
• Contractors Provide Vital Services to Deployed Forces but Are Not Adequately Addressed in DOD Plans GAO-03-695 - June 2003
• Private Military Companies: Options for Regulation Foreign and Commonwealth Office February 12, 2002
• PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES - SESSION 2001-2002 -- RESPONSE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS October 2002
• Report on the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, submitted by Mr. Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, Special Rapporteur, pursuant to Commission resolution 2001/3 E/CN.4/2002/20 -- 10 January 2002
• THE PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANY: A LEGITIMATE INTERNATIONAL ENTITY WITHIN MODERN CONFLICT A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College - 2001
• Report on the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, submitted by Mr. Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, Special Rapporteur E/CN.4/1997/24 -- 20 February 1997
• International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, 4 December 1989
  
  
• ZIMBABWE/MERCENARIES VOA 28 Apr 2004
• Iraq: Private Security Personnel -- Dangerous Or Cost-Effective? RFE/RL 13 Apr 2004
• Iraq: Al-Fallujah Deaths Highlight Role Of Private Security Forces RFE/RL 02 Apr 2004
• SOUTH AFRICA: Guns still for hire for troubled continent IRIN 26 Mar 2004
• ZIMBABWE/ MERCENARIES VOA 23 Mar 2004
• ZIMBABWE: Suspected soldiers of fortune charged under security law IRIN 17 Mar 2004
• ZIMBABWE / PLANE VOA 17 Mar 2004
• ZIMBABWE: Suspected mercenaries awaiting charges IRIN 11 Mar 2004
• SAF/MERCENARIES VOA 10 Mar 2004
• ZIMBABWE/PLANE VOA 09 Mar 2004