The 'human shields' who tried to stop the Iraq war
BBC World Service’s programme ‘The Documentary’ discusses the hundreds of anti-war activists who migrated voluntarily to Iraq to serve as ‘human shields’ in 2003.
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Commenting on whether these ‘human shields’ were an advantage for the political leadership in Iraq, Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary – who has written extensively on this subject – said that could have been the case.
“It seems clear to me that Saddam Hussein used the Westerners who volunteered to serve as human shields for his own ends, but I think politics is always like that and there's no way to prevent it.”
Listen to the full programme on the BBC World Service.