... States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private military and security companies ... other reasons such as ideological, religious or moral. An additional difficulty to apply this element of the definition relates to the compensation given to the individual for taking ...

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