0 a person or group of people kept in a particular place in order to stop an enemy from attacking that place:
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.
