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Tag: Chagossians

  • Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma

    When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter that is hard to exaggerate.  The plight of its indigenous population has been horrendous, treated with brutish contempt by the British […]

  • Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting of the Chagossians

    Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting of the Chagossians

    It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents had been brutally displaced between 1965 to 1973, to Mauritius. In an October 3 joint statement between London and Port […]

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