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Countercitation: use of humans as literal shields is a fairly old tactic employed e.g. by the Mongol Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Mongol_Empire#...


Sorry, I should say no one has used their own people as human shields before. The mongols used captives from the other side.




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