Hypocrisy of the European Union
Europe always manages to point its little finger at us, calling us the bad guys. Yea, we are the bad guys, but so are you. The EU is no-less guilty in its shady dealings around the world. Don't think we forgot, "The sun never sets on the British Empire" and all you're other colonial garbage.Read the entire Human Rights Watch report here.In its annual report, Human Rights Watch said the [EU and] UK in particular was ignoring abuses in Russia and Saudi Arabia to secure business contracts...
The group said there was an "unseemly competition" between leaders from the UK, France and Germany to proclaim the closeness of their relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite human rights concerns in Chechnya.
The EU also "utterly failed" to tackle the US on its "practice of 'disappearing' terrorist suspects", Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
It singled out France and Germany for pressing to lift the EU arms embargo on China despite a lack of progress on holding accountable those responsible for the crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Meanwhile, the UK has been pressing hard for Saudi Arabia to buy arms from British manufacturers "while remaining silent on the kingdom's abysmal human rights record", the report said...
posted by BrooklynKat at 10:52 AM
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You might like this then :
"Alas, European governments were shedding crocodile tears for show purposes only.
On December 11 the Telegraph (UK) reported on a European Union document in its possession that summarizes an EU-US meeting in Athens Greece on January 22, 2003 in which the EU agreed to "co-operation in removals."
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Thanks for that article chromatius. Best quote: "So we have the entire Western world complicit in kidnapping and torture."
Sad but true.
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