Public International Law is a system of law
Prohibited at any time by civilians or military agents: (a) violence to life, health or physical or
mental well-being of persons, in particular murder: torture of all kinds, corporal punishments,
mutilation; (b) outrages upon personal dignity, humiliating and degrading: taking hostage,
collective punishment, threaths to commit any of the foregoing acts.
Any punishment imposed only by legal decision
Illegal combatants : myth
A merchanary is any person who: Art 47. (I AP)
Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict.
Does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities
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
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