Take cover! Take cover!

Take cover!

Come on!

Quick! Hide! Quick!

Take cover!

Hidden farms!

Here too, the intent to employ mercenaries or to turn an individual into a mercenary is obvious.

Still have your stash?

Why the concealed entrance?

Take cover! Drive off the road, quick!

What is more, the fact that mercenary activity is increasingly hiding behind modern private security companies may be attributable to the failure of existing international legislation to envisage the kinds of situations that involve the presence of mercenaries.

Who hired you for this?

The persistence of mercenary activities, the tremendous variety of methods by which mercenaries operate and the support networks and organizations hidden behind these activities show that States, particularly the smallest and weakest ones, are not adequately protected against mercenarism and its various forms.

III. MERCENARY ACTIVITIES

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

A mercenary can, without ceasing to be a mercenary, also become a terrorist.

These ploys must be identified and situations in which it is presumed that attempts are being made to disguise the mercenary s true status studied carefully.

126. The united front presented by the action taken by the international community against mercenary activities is affected by the toleration of legal gaps and inadequacies which are used to conceal mercenary activities and even to endorse the recruitment and employment of mercenaries, on the grounds that, in some cases, it is not illegal to make use of such means.

You doin' the hiring'?

They hired us.

We also prosecute employers who are found to have acted in breach of the Employment Ordinance.

Why should I hire Tom?

but we hire men to do it for us.

I guess they weren't hired.

It is precisely the existence of loopholes and legal ambiguities that has facilitated the use of mercenaries and of companies engaged in mercenary activities, without any effective legal action being taken against those who hire mercenaries or against mercenaries themselves.

She's being filmed with a hidden camera.

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

Misha Glenny Hire the hackers!

Well, they signed me up immediately.

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apos Article 63 1 Mercenary activity

III. Mercenary activities in Africa

117. Because mercenary activities and the conduct of the mercenary himself can seriously impair the enjoyment of human rights, the self determination of peoples, the stability of constitutionally established Governments and international peace and security, mercenary activities and the mercenary career must be clearly and unequivocally banned.

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

In carrying out their operations, these companies do not hesitate to hire mercenaries to take charge of the military aspects.

That's a cop wearing black right there, being filmed with a hidden camera.

well, no sense letting a beautiful, secluded spot like this go to waste.

Stumpy, didn't I tell you to stay out of sight?

The 1989 Convention dealt with the consequences of the activity, not the reasons for it.

They don't employ those workers.

And for that job i employed dimitrios.

To remain in our employ.

I can get a chambermaid for a year for that.

Don't you worry. If he fires you, I'll hire you.

With particular regard to Afghanistan, mercenaries fell into several categories, including those working for private companies, those in the pay of warlords, and those involved in drug trafficking in the highly lucrative illegal poppy cultivation market.