Their right to return
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1636549,00.html
The dispossession of the Diego Garcia islanders to create a US base is
an indictment of Britain
Mark Curtis
Tuesday November 8, 2005
The Guardian
Today, a British-engineered occupation enters its fifth decade. There
will be no commemoration, despite the human toll and murkiness
surrounding what is going on there. Yet an entire population, exiled
from their homeland and betrayed by the British government, are
stepping up their campaign to return home. The coming weeks may decide
their fate.
Forty years ago this week, while African and Asian countries were
throwing off British rule, Whitehall officials were busy establishing a
new colony. The British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) was created by
detaching the Chagos island group from Mauritius and other small
islands from the Seychelles, then both British colonies. Mauritius was
given =A33m in compensation; the following year, Britain signed a
military agreement with the US leasing it the largest island, Diego
Garcia, for 50 years.
Mark Curtis
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/e6fcb62c43429c15
Diego Garcia
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