Examples of human shield

• This so-called "human shield" is an inhuman manipulation.

• There can be no defence for the taking of civilian hostages and using them as a human shield.

• All the evidence shows that, using the consumer as a human shield, a new and totally undemocratic form of government is being introduced.

• Only one outcome can have any decency in it the release of all hostages and the ending of the policy of the human shield.

• He has taken innocent women, children and men from many countries as hostages to act as a human shield behind which his army can hide.

• They have been a constant presence by willingly forming a human shield.

• They conscripted child soldiers and used the civilian population as a human shield, but that does not in any way alleviate the responsibility of the governmental authorities on the spot.

• That leaves aside the really disastrous scenario, which is the use of foreigners or people of their own kind as a human shield against such an attack.