US Leans On Belgians to Spare Sharon From Trial

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http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Articles/2003/articles-048.html

Mohamed Shaukat Abu Rudeina believes that his family will never receive justice. “It’s all over,” he says. “The world has changed since Sept. 11, 2001. The Americans rule the world.”

A few yards from his concrete breeze-block home, the bullets that killed his father and uncle still puncture the walls. In 1982 up to 1,700 Palestinians were massacred here, in the camps of Sabra and Shatilla. The Israeli Kahan Commission stated that Ariel Sharon — then the Israeli defense minister, now the prime minister, who sent the killers into the camps — was “personally responsible” for the killings. On that basis, Mohamed was one of the survivors who brought the legal case against Sharon to Brussels.

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But, as Chibli Mallat, one of the three lawyers representing the survivors, pointed out, this was not enough. “After the Belgians agreed to the changes, Donald Rumsfeld said he wasn’t happy with the changes. Is this to save Sharon from coming to trial?” Mallat has studied Belgian law all too carefully. “The Belgians decided that the accused could be tried in their own country, provided it had a fair legal system. We said, ‘Fine, but our plaintiffs cannot go to Israel — they, as Palestinian refugees, won’t have any chance of setting foot in Israel to state their case’. So the case has to be heard in Belgium.”

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“It’s finished,” says Mohamed Shaukat in the yard where his father was murdered. “The political situation around the world is different today. In the past, I was convinced we would have justice. But now America is a monster ... and they can terrorize the world. The Belgians will submit to their orders.” Mallat takes a more legalistic view. “Do the Americans now want to say ‘we are the same as Sharon’? Do they really want that? Because Sabra and Shatilla was a war crime.”
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did you notice "the Americans rule the world now." but it ain't us americans. the bushgang rules us too.