Originally Posted by
WB627
Unfortunately that will not work, as Putin does not give a flying fc**k what happens to ANYONE fighting for him. They are totally expendable.
The
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, (
Protocol I), 8 June 1977 states:
Art 47. Mercenaries- A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war.
- A mercenary is any person who:
- (a) is especially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;
- (b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;
- (c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party;
- (d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;
- (e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and
- (f) has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.
All the criteria (a–f) must be met, according to the Geneva Convention, for a combatant to be described as a mercenary.
As with anything coming out of Russia, from Lada Niva's to T-72's, there seems to be some faulty headwork in the russin to a judgement. If they toast these 3, the judges and the jury would be committing another crime to add to the myriad of crimes that the despotic kingdom of Rus comes up with daily. I sure hope that the world has a memory over Russia this time round, although come to think of it, the reason NATO was formed in 1949 was because a lot of people knew what the USSR was, and Count Vlad has sent the remnants of the former CIS back towards it's days of glory in the USSR mold, where mould was a form of food, as lord knows the system didn't work then either.