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Mauritius: Rights Group Accuses UK, U.S. of 'Crimes Against Humanity' Over Chagos Islands
allAfrica, 15 February 2023
A human rights group has accused the British government of lying, and the British and American governments of committing "crimes against humanity" in the process of establishing a… Read more »
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Seychelles: Crimes Against Humanity - Seychelles' Chagossian Community Reacts to HRW Report
Seychelles News Agency, 20 February 2023
The Chagossian community must be included in any negotiations about the future of the island, said the chairperson of the Seychelles Chagossian Committee after discussions with the… Read more »
UK, U.S. Accused of 'Crimes Against Humanity' Over Chagos Islands
New York-based Human Rights Watch has accused the British government of lying, and the British and American governments of committing "crimes against humanity" in the process of establishing a strategically important U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, writes John Allen for AllAfrica.
The accusations, made in a 106-page report issued on Wednesday February 15 2023, arise from the forced expulsion, in the 1960s and 1970s, of the residents of the Chagos archipelago.
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15 February 2023
The Last British Colony in Africa - How Chagossians were Forced off Their Homeland
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The story of how Chagossians were forced to leave their homes in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a military base on land ... see more »
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Mauritius: Fifty Years on, Islanders Can't Go Home
HRW, 14 February 2023
Expulsion of Chagos Islands' Indigenous People an Ongoing Colonial Crime Read more »
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Mauritius: Seychelles' Chagossians Seek to Be Part of Ongoing Negotiations Between UK and Mauritius
Seychelles News Agency, 19 January 2023
Chagossians living in Seychelles have also called for them to be part of ongoing negotiations between Mauritius and the United Kingdom over the return of Chagos Islands to… Read more »
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Around 2,000 Chagossians were forcibly evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the central Indian Ocean in 1960 after the UK leased the main island, Diego Garcia, to the United ... Read more »
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15 February 2023
'That’s When the Nightmare Started' UK and U.S. Forced Displacement of the Chagossians and Ongoing Colonial Crimes
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About 60 years ago, the UK government secretly planned, with the United States, to force an entire Indigenous people, the Chagossians, from their ... see more »
In April 2006, after 38 years of fighting against the injustice of their displacement in precarious conditions, 102 Chagossians were allowed to visit for four days. They're still not able to go home (file photo).
