The plight of the Ilois: Victims of the Cold War and the War on Terror

Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:39 UTC

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“The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls,” wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in 1966. “We must surely be very tough about this.” Read full article

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Pytangua
A good and principled article on the plight of the Chago Islanders - a shameful action by the British government that has still not been corrected up to now. This is why many people are skeptical of the UK attitude to the Falklands - why was the principle of self-determination not applied in the case of the Ilois as well? It really does smack of hypocrisy based on underlying racism.
Feb 22nd, 2022 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Steve Potts
Let us not forget Argentina's contribution to world peace ....On 27 March 1945, Argentina declared war on Germany.

And then allowed Nazi war criminals to hide from justice
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Pugol-H
Well, we shall see if the Mauritius Gov allows them to return to a place which will soon be completely uninhabitable and then underwater, ‘gravitational anomaly’ notwithstanding.

Cynical the way the Mauritius Gov has exploited the Chagossians, very cynical.
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Livepeanuts
Chagos have been British for a very long time and will continue to be British unless a Marxist manages to get in to Number 10 with a landslide as we saw in 1945 or 1997 we will be ok
Feb 22nd, 2022 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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