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After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important ...
Mr Tuckwell said many of the Chagossian arrivals have children, and the council had a legal responsibility to find temporary ...
In total, the authority said it has cost more than a staggering £508,000 between July 2024 and March 2025. Due to more ...
The Chagossians were expelled from the islands between 1965 and 1973 to make way for the Diego Garcia base and have not been allowed to return.But Mr Sands told peers the “quid pro quo” for ...
Chagossians on the last boats in 1973 told Human Rights Watch about the suffering they have endured. Liseby Elyse, pregnant at the time, described sharing a cabin with pigs and horses.
Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand sovereignty of their islands to Mauritius had given them a "last chance" to demand a rethink, and pledged to protest at the ...
Chagossians living in the UK have accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating them like ‘second-class citizens’.. The minority ethnic group were expelled from their homeland in the 1960s when Britain ...
The Chagossians, meanwhile, have fought for years not only for reparation, but for the right to return home. This has been denied to them by both the US and UK governments, ...
A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...
The Chagossians do not live in any single neighborhood of Crawley—and there are Chagossians in Manchester, Leeds, and other cities—but you cannot miss the glimmerings of shared identity.
The Chagossians who were on the boats that took them from Chagos described how badly they were treated. On one trip, they were kept below in the hold, while horses from Chagos were kept on deck.