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US hires private firms for 'dirty work':
Russian diplomat
Wednesday August 29, 2012 08:35:22 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: Allowing private security companies to work in conflict zones
helps the US government "avoid responsibility" for violating the
norms of international humanitarian law, a Russian diplomat has
said.
"We have to state that, regardless of the controversial experience
regarding the Blackwater company, the US State and Defense
Department continue to actively hire contract specialists, notably
to perform 'dirty work' in armed conflict zones," said Konstantin
Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry's Commissioner for Human
Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.
"By 'outsourcing' state functions to private companies, the US
government can avoid responsibility for violating norms of
international humanitarian law," he said.
He said Moscow was concerned after the US Justice Department ended
investigations into an attempt to bribe the Iraqi interior
ministry by private security company Academi LLC (formerly known
as Blackwater) in 2007.
"This company tried to pay a $1-million bribe to get a license to
work in Iraq and block an investigation into the September 2007
killing of 17 civilians, including children, by its employees in
Baghdad," Dolgov said.
He said the US State Department terminated its contract with
Blackwater only two years after the tragedy.
Dolgov said the US legal system demonstrated "double standards in
US justice" when sentencing Russian national Viktor Bout to 25
years in prison "only for his intention (unproved) to sell weapons
to Colombian rebels", while "the successor company of Blackwater
officially admitted illegal arms sales in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Sudan".
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