Europe effectively condones the existence of a territory where atrocities go unpunished, and pretends that the war being waged there does not concern Europeans... and crimes that would never be tolerated in the rest of Europe – killings, extra-judicial persecution and executions – are seen as unproblematical.
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Indeed, there is even tacit acceptance of the monstrous notion that one particular nation should bear collective responsibility for the actions of a few of its members.