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Yemen president says rebels use "human shields"
Sep 20th, 2009 - Reuters
SANAA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Yemen's president on Sunday accused northern rebels of killing innocent civilians and using "human shields", in an address carried in state media.
Sri Lanka fighting 'killed 20000'
May 29th, 2009 - Al Jazeera English
More than 20,000 civilians were killed in the final days of the Sri Lankan military's operation against the separatist Tamil Tigers, Britain's Times newspaper has reported. Citing confidential UN documents...
Sri Lanka forces West to retreat over 'war crimes' with victory at UN
May 27th, 2009 - Times Online
Sri Lanka claimed a propaganda victory last night after the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution praising its defeat of the Tamil Tigers and condemning the rebels for using civilians as human shields. China...
Pakistani Troops Battling Taliban for Main Swat City
May 24th, 2009 - VOA News
Pakistani security forces are going street-to-street in the main city of the Swat Valley in what the army describes as fierce fighting. The army made its push into Mingora Saturday...
Pelosi Stands By CIA Charge, Ducks Questions
May 22nd, 2009 - The Huffington Post
The length of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opening remarks at a press conference often correlates to the political barometric pressure level. The longer the opening, the worse the pressure. If the Pelosi-Pressure-Correlation-Matrix is any guide...

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Hamas - Human Shield Confession
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields. Fathi Hammad: [The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people ...
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Human Shields - Hamas in action
While Hamas is constantly attacking Israeli civilians they treat their own civilians with the same respect - check out how civilians are called to serve as human shields of a terrorist's house in Gaza.
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Gaza war crimes investigation: human shields
Clancy Chassay investigates claims from three brothers that the Israeli military used them as human shields during the invasion of Gaza

Human Shields from WikiPedia:

Human shield is a military and political term describing the presence of civilians in or around combat targets to deter an enemy from attacking those targets. It may also refer to the use of civilians to literally shield combatants during attacks, by forcing the civilians to march in front of the soldiers.

This is done in the hope that the other party will be reluctant to attack them. Furthermore, if the other party attacks these targets anyway, the resulting civilian casualties have propaganda value.

Using this technique increases the civilian casualty rate and is illegal by any nation that is party to the Fourth Geneva Convention.[citation needed]

After World War II it was claimed by German SS general, Generalleutnant Gottlob Berger that there was a plan, proposed by the Luftwaffe and approved by Adolf Hitler, to set up special POW camps for captured airmen of the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force in large German cities, to act as human shields against their bombing raids.