Używanie "żywych tarcz" jest oczywistą zbrodnią wojenną. Media opisują często Talibów używających żywych tarcz. A co jeśli są oni dobrowolnymi żywymi tarczami. Nie są oni ani związani ani nie mają zawiązanych oczu. Są także miejscowymi, tak jak część Talibów. Nie ma to większego znaczenia. ISAF ma unikać ofiar cywilnych.
Przykłady używania żywych tarcz w historii wojen i konfliktów:
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W 2009 Isreali Defence Forces w czasie Wojny w Gazie 2002 during The Battle of Jenin.
In 2009 Tamil Tigers had been preventing Tamil civilians (by firing on them) from fleeing out of rebel held area and using them as human shields against a Sri Lankan Army offensive.
In 2007 Taliban in Afghanistan was using women and children as human shields in close combat.
In 2006 – 7 Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank volunteered as human shields to prevent Israeli attacks. In other hand Hamas militans often fired rounds or mortar shells at Israeli troops being in the Palestinian crowd.
In 2006 Hezbollah during Lebanon War used Lebanese civilians as a human shields.
In 1995 Bosnian Serbs turned hundreds od UN Peacekeepers into human shields, chaining them to military targets.
In 1990 Saddam Hussein‘s government during First Gulf War detained hundreds of citizens of Western countries who were in Iraq for use as human shields.
In 1944 Nazi German Wehrmacht during Warsaw Uprising (after Wola Massacre of est. 30-100,000 civilians) were strengthened by the arrival of tanks using civilians as human shields. Visit The Warsaw Rising Museum in Warsaw to hear Mathias Schenk’s eye witness relation www.1944.pl.
In 1940 Nazi German Wehrmacht during the Battle of France, in Belgian village Vinkt, took civilian hostages and use them as human shields.
In 1939 Soviet soldiers during the storming of Grodno, were attaching children to the tanks.
C. 1899–1902 British during Second Boer War were using Boer women and children as human shields while advancing to Boer troops. They were also using ‘dum-dum’ bullets at the time.*
In 1587 Austrian army of Maximilian III Archduke of Austria, during siege of Olsztyn (near Częstochowa) kidnapped son of Kacper Karliński who was the commander of the Polish defense, and used him as a human shield.
In 1386 Arnold Winkelried during Battle of Sempach, opened a breach in Habsburg lines by throwing himself into their spears, taking them down with his body, such that his Swiss comrades could attack through the opening. This is only legend, but is showing example of voluntary heroic human shield.
In 1219 Genghis Khan has driven Khwarizmians in front of his 200,000 army. They were serving as human shields when Mongols took next city of Khwarizm.
In 1109 Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the Battle of Głogów, chained the polish child hostages to his siege engines, hoping that the people of Głogów would not attack their own sons.
* published on November 30, 1901 at The New York Times.
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