Editing Mercenary (section)

=====Sierra Leone=====
[[File:MacKenzieSlcu.jpg|thumb|[[Robert C. MacKenzie]]  (standing, wings on hat) with some of the Sierra Leone Commando Unit he was training with the Gurkha security guards]]

American [[Robert C. MacKenzie]] was killed in the Malal Hills in February 1995, while commanding Gurkha Security Guards (GSG) in [[Sierra Leone]]. GSG pulled out soon afterwards and was replaced by [[Executive Outcomes]]. Both were employed by the Sierra Leone government as military advisers and to train the government soldiers. It has been alleged that the firms provided soldiers who took an active part in the fighting against the [[Revolutionary United Front]] (RUF).<ref>{{cite book|title=Soldier of Fortune|publisher=Omega Group, Limited|page=91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAUSAQAAIAAJ|language=en|year=2000|access-date=4 September 2017|archive-date=15 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215134430/https://books.google.com/books?id=CAUSAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2000, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC-TV) international affairs program ''Foreign Correspondent'' broadcast a special report "Sierra Leone: Soldiers of Fortune", focusing on former 32BN and Recce members who operated in Sierra Leone while serving for SANDF. Officers like De Jesus Antonio, TT D Abreu Capt Ndume and Da Costa were the forefront because of their combat and language skills and also the exploits of South African pilot [[Neall Ellis]] and his [[MI-24 Hind]] gunship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2000/s229144.htm|title=Gunship for Hire|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=28 September 2000|access-date=28 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226002825/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2000/s229144.htm|archive-date=26 December 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> The report also investigated the failures of the UN Peacekeeping Force, and the involvement of mercenaries and private military contractors in providing vital support to UN operations and British military Special Operations in Sierra Leone in 1999–2000.