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Hyder Gulamprivately contracted military personnel are used because their motivation is essentiallyfinancial and not to ensure national security. 59For example, a leading US PMC, Blackwater Consulting has a $35.7m contract totrain 10,000 American troops. Blackwater also helped guard the chief administrator inIraq, Paul Bremer. Another PMC, DynCorp, has contracts worth around $1 billion andguards the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai. Around a tenth of the total cost of Iraqireconstruction now goes on security. As the training and weapons-maintenancecontracts reveal private firms also play a role in the core operations of the alliedmilitary forces themselves. 6059 Damian Lilly, ‘The Privatization of Peacekeeping: Prospects and Realities’, Disarmament Forum –United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, No.3, 2000, p.2.60 Anon, ‘Dangerous Work: Private security firms in Iraq’, The Economist, 10 April 2004, p.26.Page 17The rise and rise of Private Military Companies
Hyder GulamHow different States have attempted to deal with the situation:The drive to regulate PMCs has been most effective when national governments, notforeign governments who contract them, have been affected. This has best beendemonstrated by the legislative actions in South Africa and the findings from the UKLegg Inquiry over the controversial role of Sandline in Sierra Leone, known as the‘Arms to Africa Affair.’ 61 This section will look at how a number of select States havedealt with PMCs and mercenaries to date.AustraliaThe Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 (‘the Act’) 62 deals withincursions such as hostile invasions into foreign states by Australian citizens orresidents. Among other things, the Act creates the offences of entering a foreign statewith intent to engage in a hostile activity in that state, and engaging in a hostileactivity in a foreign state. 63 The objective of the activity must be to overthrow thegovernment of the foreign state; engage in armed hostilities; cause death or bodilyinjury (or fear thereof) to the head of state or a person who holds or performs theduties of public office; or unlawfully destroy or damage any real or personal propertybelonging to the government of the foreign state.A person does not commit an offence under subsection 6(1) if he or she was serving‘in any capacity in or with’ the armed forces of the government of a foreign state or‘any other armed force in respect of which a declaration by the Minister undersubsection 9(2) is in force’ 64 . In the Second Reading Speech for the original bill(1978), the then Attorney-General explained the rationale for permitting Australiansto serve in foreign armies in the following way:“… the legislation will not prevent an Australian from going overseas andenlisting in another country. The Government recognises that occasionswill arise where persons will wish to enlist and serve in armed forces ofanother country because of a deeply-held belief.” 65The Act also creates offences of preparing for incursions into foreign states recruitingpersons to join organisations engaged in hostile activities against foreigngovernments; and recruiting persons in Australia to serve in or with an armed force ina foreign state. 66 In addition, the Act prohibits the recruiting, advertising, facilitation,or promotion of the use of mercenaries to serve in the armed forces of anothercountry. 6761 Op cit, fn.24, p.57.62 see http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ciara1978431/63 Section 6(1)(a) and (b): A person shall not:(a) enter a foreign State with intent to engage in a hostile activity in that foreign State; or(b) engage in a hostile activity in a foreign State. Penalty: Imprisonment for 20 years.64 Section 6(40: Nothing in this section applies to an act done by a person in the course of, and as partof, the person's service in any capacity in or with:(a) the armed forces of the government of a foreign State; or(b) any other armed force in respect of which a declaration by the Minister under subsection 9(2) is inforce.65 Commonwealth of Australia (Morag Donaldson), ‘Anti-terrorism Bill 2004’, Law and Bills DigestGroup, 19 April 2004, p.2.66 ibid, p.2.67 Op cit, fn.12 at 29.Page 18The rise and rise of Private Military Companies
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