Illegal kombattant vs. Legosoldat : en komparativstudie av begreppen

Sammanfattning: Current concepts of illegal combatant and mercenary are linked to the U.S. and their military activities, which that they hire security companies with “mercenaries” to fight against “illegal combatants”. These two concepts exist in a gray area of international law and they receive neither combatant status nor civilian status. Due there exist a discussion of the need to obtain civil status. By developing Genève Conventions, GC, and The Hague Conventions, HC, there are multilateral treaties that bind states to follow different rules for the protection of civilians and combatants (GC) and laws governing war (HC). However, the illegal combatant and mercenary are protected by the most basic human rights, necessary if they should be captured so that they obtain a humane treatment. The comparison in the paper builds on the concepts of finding similarities and differences and understand how they can exist in an grey area in the law.