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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-UK diplomat Craig Murray:End This British Atrocity (ethnic cleansing of Diego Garcia for US base)
One of the worst atrocities of the British Empire occurred well within my own lifetime the removal of an entire people, the Chagossians, from their homeland. Uprooted and deposited across the seas hundreds of miles away, many died from the physical and psychological effects of this crime against humanity. The thing is, it is still happening. The survivors have clung together as a community, and the British government are still actively preventing their return to their homeland all to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia. There is no reason other than simple Imperialism for America to maintain a military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Probably the most breathtaking piece of hypocrisy in modern history was when New Labour proudly announced that they had demarcated the waters around the Chagos Islands as the worlds first total marine conservation area purely so they could make it impossible for the fishing based island community ever to return.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/03/end-this-british-atrocity/
newfie11
(8,159 posts)JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)And they certainly weren't of good British stock.
Op cit
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Umm....
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)First they kidnap them from Africa then they throw their descendants out of the only place they ever called home. I guess the Mauritians were lucky the US didn't want their hunk of rock too.