Is it odd I take great pleasure when G.B. show's itself to be as uncaring and corrupt as my home country?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes
QuoteThe historian appointed to oversee the review and transfer, Tony Badger, master of Clare College, Cambridge, says the discovery of the archive put the Foreign Office in an "embarrassing, scandalous" position. "These documents should have been in the public archives in the 1980s," he said. "It's long overdue." The first of them are made available to the public on Wednesday at the National Archive at Kew, Surrey.
It's not really surprising that the nation responsible for the Opium Wars committed other atrocities. No offense meant my British friends, but I like reminding you, both our countries are and have been run by criminals. :)
That last part is simply a logical guess, I have been mostly ignoring current European politics.
Politicians are often self-serving egotistical power-hungry bastards, nothing to see here move along please :)