You know what else is Europe? Belarus, conveniently forgotten, no longer seen as "the last dictatorship in Europe"http://www.euractiv.com/sections/europes-east/eu-no-longer-sees-lukashenko-last-dictator-312284 …
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HRW: "Belarus made no meaningful strides in 2014" http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/belarus … upgraded after Minsk Summit (home of the strained Ukr ceasefire)
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German business interested in long-term cooperation with Belarusian companies (state agency Belta, Jul 1 2015) http://eng.belta.by/all_news/economics/German-business-interested-in-long-term-cooperation-with-Belarusian-companies_i_82924.html …
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Lukashenko even arrested one-armed people for clapping, not long ago http://charter97.org/en/news/2011/7/27/40988 … misdemeanor compared to Sisi's reign of terror
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Death row in Belarus: "Bodies are not handed over for burial, place of burial is not communicated" http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1969 …
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Remember all that about Belarus when it's cleared for business with the rest of Europe, while its human rights record will remain atrocious.
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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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