Double-Standards and Human Rights Protection
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There have been criticisms that Western countries have had double standards when it came to the prosecution of known war criminals and human rights violators [1]. Various examples of this have included the refusal of the US to assist in the prosecution of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet but the US has certainly been willing to facilitate the prosecution of foreign leaders who are enemies of the United States as war criminals such as Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=8055. Critics have pointed out that the Kossovo Liberation army leadership was responsible for war crimes against Serb civilians but no KLA leaders have been investigated or prosecuted www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/jan99/012999b.htm [2] [3] . The US and NATO was involved in military action in Yugoslavia in the late 1990's claiming to protect the Kosovo Albanians but the United States and NATO completely ignoring the Rwandan Genocide [4] -[5] [6] [7].The same double-standards are occurring again where the US and NATO are involved in fighting in Afghanistan but is doing nothing to stop the genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan.
