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"The use of civilians as human shields is not novel.8 Evidence of the practice dates back to the American Civil War9 and the Second World War.10 The practice has also been documented in the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. 11 United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping forces similarly faced attacks from weapon systems placed within civilian areas or hostile forces that used civilians as human shields, for example, in Beirut in the early 1980s and Somalia in the early 1990s.12 The human shields tactic was also employed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in many of its conflicts.13"

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