Armed Attacks With The Participation Of Mercenaries – Dangerous Action To Destroy The Environment

At this stage, military conflicts are no longer defined as covert actions. These have begun to spread around the world. Sometimes the main political actors, in order to get some advantages and interests – resort directly to armed attacks against opponents. Internationally analyzed practice shows that third parties are often involved in such armed attacks, ie those who are not nationals of any of the states involved in armed conflict. Such persons, in international law, are called mercenaries. The activity of mercenaries is ruthless. Mercenaries are people who strike directly or indirectly with firearms, sometimes without regard to the rules of international law, the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens. Most often, armed attacks involving mercenaries are particularly dangerous, directly affecting the lives and health of citizens. As a result of the attacks, the mercenaries leave behind only chaos and massive destruction. These destructions are diverse: architectural, patrimonial, damages to individuals, destruction of roads, restriction of access roads, and others. Thus, we aim to analyze in detail and multispectively this topic, in particular, how the armed attacks of mercenaries negatively harm the environment.