BP Editors
Just the letters “PMC” (Private Military Contractor) is enough to send shivers up one’s spine. Dyncorp, a PMC with revenues of $3 billion annually, has been employed in the so-called war on drugs in Columbia since 2001. Because of their actions in Columbia, they are now the subjects of several lawsuits accusing them of torture, murder, and reckless endangerment of the people and environmental well being of Columbia.
Dyncorp is accused of spraying gratuitous amounts of herbicide on crops which caused major health issues in nearby residents, killing off livestock, and causing the deaths of over 10,000 people.
And that wasn’t the first time Dyncorp did the exact opposite of what they were hired to do: in the late 90s, Dyncorp was employed in Bosnia where they were accused of engaging in statutory rape with children ages 12 to 15, selling the kids to one another as slaves when they were finished with them. While Dyncorp fired five of their employees for this behavior, they also mind blowingly fought a proposal by the US Defense department that would officially and formally prohibit PMCs from engaging in such deplorable behavior.
