R. Charli Carpenter (2003), '''Women and Children First": Gender, Norms and Humanitarian Evacuation in the Balkans 1991-95', International Organization, 57, pp. 661-94.

Larry. No men under sixty, ok? UNPROFOR General Morrillon to UNHCR official Hollingworth,

Srebrenica, 1993.

Of all war-affected noncombatants worldwide, those most at risk of summary execution are adult civilian males. 1 The propensity of belligerents to single out adult men for massacre has now been documented in dozens of ongoing conflicts.2 More often than women, children, or the elderly, military-age men are assumed to be

"potential" combatants and are therefore treated by armed forces as if they are in fact legitimate targets.3