What kind of "European values" allow for enticing oppressive states to close their borders in order to stanch the flow of their refugees?
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Not strictly European this, but Myanmar's junta was cleared for business by the US, wore civvies then ethnically cleansed the Rohingya.
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Other recent stuff in Europe: torture in CIA black sites http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/poland-cia-blacksiteeuropeancourthumanrightstorture.html … MI6 shopping dissidents to Gaddafi http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/21/libyan-dissident-abdel-hakin-belhaj-appeal-mi6-rendition …
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To wit, another thing that is happening in this Europe is 'institutions' making an example of Greece, after bleeding it dry with austerity.
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It could conceivably get much worse, people here are fearing it. The illusion of Europe as elevated from the horrors is already shattered.
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Refugees in Europe already know it's an illusion. Many fleeing torture, some tortured here http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/germany-refugees-tortured-abu-ghraib-like-asylum-centre-1467747 … http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/us-greece-migrants-idUSBRE8B50Y920121206 …
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