1. Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
... activities when these activities are somewhat related to mercenary activities; They shall make the offences set forth in the present Convention punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the grave nature of those offences (paragraph 3 of Article 5); They shall take all necessary measures in order to establish its jurisdiction over any of the offences contemplated in the Convention ... . It is, however, unclear that this regulation applies, or is applied, to local companies, who report that recruitment is done in a more informal manner.41 The Working Group notes a non-gov...
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