Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
Practice Relating to Rule 97. Human Shields
In 1991, in a document entitled “Examples of violations of the rules of international law committed by the so-called armed forces of Slovenia”, the Ministry of Defence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia included the following example: “During the attack on the tanks of YPA [Yugoslav People’s Army] in the Rozna Dolina, the Slovenian troops had brought in front of their units women and children, expecting quite rightly that YPA soldiers would not open fire on them.”