When has a military force used their own people as human shields?
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I am quite sure this was common during Russian civil war on the part of the White army who used peasants as human shields during combat. On the other hand the Reds sometimes used rich or undesirable civilians (kulaks, priests etc) as hostages in turbulent areas.
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Review the definition of Human Shield in wikipedia; there are multiple examples of countries using their own population, or that of their allies as human shields. Note that almost every example is contested by one side or the other. This is in part because it would violate the Geneva convention. During interrogation by Allied intelligence officers in Nuremberg in October 1945, General Berger of the SS stated that Germany had contemplated the use of human shields, but discarded the notion in part because they realized that
. . . this would contravene the Geneva Convention . . .
I'm not going to quote examples from wikipedia because the examples are highly politicized; nobody wants to admit to war crimes.
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