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Vanderbilt University News
November 30, 2017
She has advised the Greek government on the return of the Parthenon Marbles, represented the Chagossians in their legal fight to return to their islands, and acted as counsel to the Armenian government in a case on the Armenian genocide. In the last year, she successfully represented three political ...
AllAfrica.com
November 6, 2017
In this regard, documents concerning the difficult conditions faced by the Chagossians during their deportation are being prepared and will ...
AllAfrica.com
October 26, 2017
He explained that the land will be used to provide agricultural technical vocational education to young Chagossians who have difficulties in ...
Inside Housing
August 29, 2017
Injustice upon injustice: the story of the Chagos Islanders ... Meanwhile, the Chagossians lived in poverty in corrugated iron slums in Mauritius, ...
The Guardian
June 28, 2017
Chagos Islanders expelled decades ago from their homes on the Indian ... Olivier Bancoult, the Chagossians' leader, has been fighting in the ...
The Guardian
June 22, 2017
Exiled Chagos islanders protesting in London, 2016, over the long bar on their .... “This was a brilliant result for Mauritius and the Chagossians.
Seychelles News Agency
May 12, 2017
Chagossians were forcibly evicted from the Chagos archipelago in 1960 when the UK leased the main island, Diego Garcia, to the United ...
The Guardian
December 24, 2016
Chagos islanders plead for end to 50-year exile as UK-US deal rolls over ... For the Chagossians' supporters, the extension of the agreement ...
The Guardian
November 15, 2016
Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base. Photograph: Reuters.
The Guardian
October 26, 2016
There are hundreds of Filipinos on the islands helping the US service personnel, and it has been argued the Chagossians pose no greater ...
The Guardian
June 29, 2016
Chagos islanders, forcibly removed from their homes in 1971, have lost ... documents assessing a feasibility report on the Chagossians' return ...
The Guardian
February 1, 2016
Chagos islanders protesting outside the high court in London in 2006. ... So many Chagossians in the UK have had their families divided by ...
New Internationalist
July 6, 2017
'Most Chagossians living in Crawley moved over in 2003 when a large amount of them won British citizenship', Donnelly explains. 'It was theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 28, 2017
Chagos Islanders expelled decades ago from their homes on the Indian Ocean archipelago by the UK have taken their case to the supremeÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 22, 2017
Exiled Chagos islanders protesting in London, 2016, over the long bar on their living in the archipelago. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
Seychelles News Agency
May 12, 2017
Chagossians were forcibly evicted from the Chagos archipelago in 1960 when the UK leased the main island, Diego Garcia, to the UnitedÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 24, 2016
This month Frankie Bontemps, the chair of the Chagos Islanders Welfare Group, joined with exiles and their descendants to hand in a letter toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 16, 2016
Chagos islanders who were expelled in the 1960s to make way for military bases will not be allowed to return to their Indian Ocean homes, theÃÂ ...
UKIP
November 3, 2016
For decades, our Chagos Islanders have been locked in a dispute over their right to live on the land that they call home. This year they areÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 26, 2016
There are hundreds of Filipinos on the islands helping the US service personnel, and it has been argued the Chagossians pose no greaterÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 29, 2016
Chagos islanders, forcibly removed from their homes in 1971, have lost a legal challenge at the supreme court that could have speeded upÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 1, 2016
When I was given the chance to move to England with a group of other Chagossians, I had to take the opportunity as it was the only chance forÃÂ ...
The Canary
March 13, 2017
Conservative Cabinet Minister Liam Fox can't have noticed the screen right behind him on the Sophy Ridge On Sunday show on 12 March.
NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL LOLS (blog)
March 13, 2017
... private company; the 1943 Bengal Famine (over 1.5 million dead); the ethnic cleansing of Palestine; the brutal repression of the Mau Mau in Kenya; Support for the racist regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa; and the expulsion of the Chagos Islanders.
The Canary
March 13, 2017
Conservative Cabinet Minister Liam Fox can't have noticed the screen right behind him on the Sophy Ridge On Sunday show on 12 March.
The National
March 7, 2017
Then there's the Irish and Indian partitions; white rule in South Africa; concentration camps and torture in Kenya; the mass deportation of the Chagos Islanders; institutionalised sectarianism in Northern Ireland as a means of maintaining British rule ...
The National
March 7, 2017
Then there's the Irish and Indian partitions; white rule in South Africa; concentration camps and torture in Kenya; the mass deportation of the Chagos Islanders; institutionalised sectarianism in Northern Ireland as a means of maintaining British rule ...
L'express Maurice
February 23, 2017
The world opinion is rightly always turning in favour of the Chagossians. Soon the British will have to stand trial at the UN General Assembly and consequently to be on trial at the International Court of Justice. No wonder the Colonial, Slave Masters ...
Gulf Today
January 28, 2017
... Dalyell's campaigns were soundly based. He brought the same unflagging energy to campaigning for the rights of the Chagos Islanders, shamefully moved from their home on the Indian Ocean islands to make way for the US military base at Diego Garcia.
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
January 27, 2017
The final shipload of Mauritians of Chagossian origin was "transported", just as if they were slaves, in the hold of a ship called the Nordvaer.
Hindustan Times
January 19, 2017
Chagos Islander Olivier Bancoult holds up a judgment paper inside the Houses of Parliament in London October 22, 2008, after a court ruling decided the islanders were not allowed to return to their homeland.
The Guardian
January 6, 2017
Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average have hit new peaks in the wake of the latest US jobs data, showing the economy in reasonably healthy shape and paving the way for further US rate rises.
International Business Times UK
January 6, 2017
Seven Nobel laureates, including South African social rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have called on US President and fellow Nobel Laureate Barack Obama to use his last days in office to help bring justice to the Chagossian people.
Crawley Observer
January 5, 2017
A spokesperson for the US support group for the Chagos community group Let Us Return USA! said the letter was geared towards ending 'five decades of exile suffered by the Chagossian people'. In the letter the laureates make clear that they are not ...
LabourList
December 19, 2016
Plans to ask public servants take an oath of loyalty to British values will serve little purpose Diane Abbott has said. Sajid Javid has suggested that public servants and all migrants should take an oath of loyalty to British values, such as democracy ...
Morning Star Online
December 12, 2016
The daughter of a Chagossian, a mother living in Crawley, a campaigner fighting for the right of return Chagos Islanders who were expelled from Diego Garcia in the 1960s to make way for a US military base. Despite this government's decision to deny ...
Morning Star Online
December 12, 2016
He referenced Sabrina Jean, now in Britain but fighting for the rights of her fellow Chagos Islanders, expelled in the 1960s to make way for a US military base.
Morning Star Online
December 12, 2016
The daughter of a Chagossian, a mother living in Crawley, a campaigner fighting for the right of return Chagos Islanders who were expelled from Diego Garcia in the 1960s to make way for a US military base. Despite this government's decision to deny ...
LabourList
December 10, 2016
The daughter of a Chagossian, a mother living in Crawley, a campaigner fighting for the right of return Chagos islanders who were expelled from Diego Garcia in the 1960s to make way for a US military base. Despite this Government's decision to deny ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
December 6, 2016
The people, called Chagossians, once lived on the small Indian Ocean islands of the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagossians' ancestors arrived around the time of the American Revolution as enslaved and indentured laborers from Africa and India. By theÃÂ ...
Buenos Aires Herald
December 2, 2016
The British Foreign Office's definitive statement on Chagos, on November 16, read: "The government has decided against resettlement of the Chagossian people to the British Indian Ocean Territory" (i.e., the place from which Britain ousted them) "on theÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 1, 2016
In order to understand this myth, let us consider the most gloomy pages of a cruel narrative on the expulsion of the Ilois in 1966.
AllAfrica.com
November 28, 2016
The majority of around 2,000 Chagossians who were forcibly evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean when the UK leased the main island Diego Garcia to the U.S.
The Mancunion
November 28, 2016
As a privileged Westerner, one cannot even begin to imagine the horrific ordeal the Chagossian people, and those living on the surrounding Chagos islands, had to endure.
UKIP
November 3, 2016
For decades, our Chagos Islanders have been locked in a dispute over their right to live on the land that they call home. This year they are closer to justice than ever.
The Argus
October 26, 2016
Chagossians were forced to leave the islands, in the central Indian Ocean, by 1973 to make way for the US base on Diego Garcia.
The Guardian
October 26, 2016
The Americans are renegotiating a further 20-year rollover lease on the islands, giving the UK government rare leverage and a chance to say the lease for the strategically important base would only be renewed if the Chagossians were allowed to return ...
AllAfrica.com
October 14, 2016
That was how some of us found out that the Chagossians had been removed from the island. Although, it was very difficult to talk about these issues even among ourselves because you never knew if you could get into trouble for talking.
Just International
September 29, 2016
The re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the British Labour Party with an overwhelming 62% support of Labour Party members is a victory for decency and sanity over the US lackey, pro-war, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-Apartheid, pro-Zionist andÃÂ ...
Cruising World
September 28, 2016
Britain claimed the 1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants of Chagos were transient "contract laborers," and from 1968 to 1973, the Chagossians were shipped to either Mauritius or the Seychelles - where they've been fighting for their right to return ever since.
