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By AnthonyBailey

Chagos Islanders Movement

...Trafalgar Square

...'The UK has suffered a humiliating defeat at the United Nations general assembly in a vote over decolonisation and its residual hold over disputed territory in the Indian Ocean. By a margin of 94 to 15 countries, delegates supported a Mauritian-backed resolution to seek an advisory opinion from the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague on the legal status of the Chagos Islands.'
Owen Bowcott, Guardian

...'Britain’s shameful treatment of Chagos islanders must end.'
Benjamin Zephaniah, Guardian

...'The Chagos Islanders Movement is a group of Chagossian volunteers, standing up against the injustice of the British and US government for the islanders forcibly evicted in 1968 to build an airbase for the US Army, then dumped in the slums of Mauritius and Seychelles without any help. We are the survivors or the children of the survivors based in various parts of the UK.'

...'Inside Diego Garcia, the highly secretive US military base'
Katie McQue, New Internationalist

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