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Again, in April 2002, Sharon attacked the West Bank, this time with even greater force. Israeli troops demolished most of the Jenin refugee camp; an unconfirmed number of people were bulldozed to death in their homes, including a 38-year-old severely handicapped man, Jamal Faved. Amnesty International has highlighted the murder of this man, and others, in its call to the British government and other signatories of the Geneva Conventions to put on trial Israeli soldiers ‘responsible for war crimes’. In London, the Director of Public Prosecutions has summoned Scotland Yard to investigate Brigadier-General Shaul Mofaz for war crimes. Blair, ever vocal about the crimes of Saddam Hussein, has made no comment.89
Robert Cooper ’s call for double standards was answrered eloquently in Kosovo. Unlike the Palestinians, the ethnic Albanian population ol Kosovo wras given an almost immediate right of return by the United States and its Nato partners. The western media over whelmingly supported the Nato action. Yet this was a civil war, and Nato did not dispute Yugoslav sovereignty. While the Kosovars were being repatriated, 250,000 Serbs and Roma wrere expelled or tied in fear from the province. Nato’s 4 0 ,0 0 0 occupying troops stood bv as this ethnic cleansing took place and did virtually noth ing to prevent the Kosovo Liberation Army from murdering, torturing, abducting, desecrating churches and generally living up to its previous description by Secretary of State Albright and Foreign Secretary Cook as ‘a terrorist organisation’ . During the Kosovo ‘wrar’, the list of civilian targets in Yugoslavia was published on the internet, but no newspaper carried it. Codenamed ‘Stage Three’ , these targets included public transport,