Tag: Chagossian

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 16:03 UTC

  The future of the Chagossian people and sovereignty for British Indian Ocean Territory

  

  By Daniel Kawczynski, MP for  Shrewsbury & Atcham since 2005  - Before I start to talk about this British Overseas Territory, I would like to say that I returned last week from another British Overseas Territory—the Falkland Islands—with my hon. Friend James Sunderland and Stephen Doughty, who is the shadow Minister for the Overseas Territories.

• Tuesday, February 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Chagossian people claiming billions of dollars from the US government

  

  The Chagossian people are seeking billions of dollars in damages from the United States under the Foreign Claims Act. The United Nations General Assembly, African Union, and International Court of Justice have all found that the forcible deportation of the Chagos Islanders a generation ago to make way for the US military base at Diego Garcia was unlawful and the continued military occupation is a serious violation of international law, according to a release from Chagossians’ lawyer, Dr, Jonathan Levy.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  UK announces new feasibility study into resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory

  

  The British government announced to Parliament that it will commission a new feasibility study into the resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, whose indigenous population the Chagossian was removed in the sixties and early seventies for defense reasons and is an issue that remains highly controversial and sensitive.