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Ever heard of the Congo? Still issues there as a result. Belgium still has a monarchy last I checked, and still hasn't fixed the evil shit they did. Well maybe there's some movement on that. Bit overdue.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/30/belgium-moving-regrets-reparations
....moving on. No seriously you can't think of anything Germany has ever done wrong? Okay more contemporary. Shutting all those nuclear power plants so they could buy gas from Russia, which props up the Russian war machine, was an excellent move, also opening new coal mines to speed up killing all those pesky Pacific Islander peoples is great. Size 24 /S here for the people that missed it.
Has an absolutely awesome record on human rights!
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/south-africa
Killing students is so 70's of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
You really added Australia to this list and followed up with
Australia had a referendum just last year where they told Indigenous Australian's they don't want to give them constitutional recognition or allow the establishment of an advisory committee to Parliament. Lets not delve too deeply into the ancient history here though. The White Australia policy was only a thing until the 70's.
Lets move on to war crimes shall we?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-19/afghan-war-crimes-report-released-what-you-need-to-know/12899880
How about the secret courts that have been established?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-05/witness-j-how-can-a-trial-be-kept-secret/11739288
Or how the Government can declare evidence is of importance to "national security" without providing evidence and refuse to allow that evidence to be used in a defence against charges?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/david-mcbride-guilty-plea-whistleblower-protection/103120544
Oof. When China does it China is bad. When Australia does it they're "paragons" of human rights! Silly me.
Okay now I know you're fucking with me.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and
And yea it counts if the victims are still alive, and the evil cunts that did it are still alive. Oh and would you look at the UKs partners in crime?
See above.
I mean you just gave up when you said "England" and didn't even refer to them as the UK but sure, whatever. Turkey? The authoritarian dictatorship Turkey that's been busy genociding the Kurds. Wait a sec, the term genocide seems familiar, doesn't that come from something Turkey did to Armenians?
Hey, thanks for following through!