MARY Robinson, the United Nations' Commissioner for Human Rights, has said that atrocities committed in the past year in Sierra Leone are worse than those in Kosovo.
Thousands of innocent civilians have had limbs brutally chopped off with machetes in this former British colony.
Efforts are being made to bring some of those responsible for atrocities in Kosovo to justice. But there is no such pursuit of justice in Sierra Leone.
Following the war there, a total of just 210 United Nations' peace monitors are due to be sent.
Yet, following the war in Kosovo, 2,000 peace monitors have been sent there in addition to 45,000 NATO troops.
I remain unconvinced that Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's avowed ethical foreign policy commitment extends beyond the boundaries of little Europe.
Double standards - for selfish people.
CHRIS WRIGLEY, Ballantrae Road, Blackburn.
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