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JohnyCanuck

(9,922 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 11:37 AM Mar 2016

Ex-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 world’s 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/

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Ex-UK diplomat Craig Murray:End This British Atrocity (ethnic cleansing of Diego Garcia for US base) (Original Post) JohnyCanuck Mar 2016 OP
Disgusting! newfie11 Mar 2016 #1
Well I guess it's not like the displaced were white folks.... JohnyCanuck Mar 2016 #2
"homeland"? Recursion Mar 2016 #3
A 200 year history as the descendants of slaves isn't good enough? CBGLuthier Mar 2016 #4

JohnyCanuck

(9,922 posts)
2. Well I guess it's not like the displaced were white folks....
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 01:31 AM
Mar 2016

And they certainly weren't of good British stock.

It is of course another example of the unparalleled talent for hypocrisy of the British state that the same politicians who declare their willingness to fight and die for the right of self-determination of the Falkland Islanders, will defend the deportation of the Chagos Islanders and their continued exclusion from their own islands. Again I would stress that Labour have been at least as guilty as Tories. The entire British state is complicit in this atrocity.

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CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
4. A 200 year history as the descendants of slaves isn't good enough?
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:28 AM
Mar 2016

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.

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