IMMUNITIES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF EMPLOYEES OF PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES
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https://doi.org/10.32689/2522-4603.2025.2.5Keywords:
private military companies, immunity, criminal liability, international law, military personnel, war crimes, international criminal court, international criminal law, United Nations, international treaties, agreements, international humanitarian lawAbstract
The article is devoted to the study of immunities and exclusion from the sphere of international criminal liability of employees of private military companies. A historical analysis of cases of exclusion of persons from the sphere of international criminal liability of a number of countries – the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Latvia, Estonia – is conducted. It is determined that immunities and mechanisms of exclusion from the sphere of international criminal liability for private military companies and their employees are aimed at protecting their own citizens from the action of criminal law and from criminal prosecution by the state on whose territory such personnel carried out military and security activities. It is proved that any exemption from liability for violations of international humanitarian law should be prohibited at the international level, and states should be obliged to involve employees of private military and security companies and for crimes under national legislation, within the jurisdiction of which the committed act is located.
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