Up Front: Private Armies
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Published: February 2008
Iraq has now spent five years under military occupation, and the suffering of the Iraqi people continues.
With growing pressure to withdraw US and UK troops from Iraq, mercenary forces have been given
an ever greater role in the conflict, making hundreds of millions of pounds for the corporations that
supply them. The companies grow richer while whole communities are condemned to the longterm
poverty which comes with war.
Despite hundreds of cases of human rights abuse by mercenary forces over the past five years, private armies have been immune from prosecution. War on Want is leading the campaign for UK
legislation to ban the use of mercenaries in war and to regulate their activities closely in all other arenas.
