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Britain Cedes Control Of Chagos Islands But Maintains Pentagon Base

October 13, 2024 Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , , , , , ,
After nearly six decades, the right to self-determination and independence is still being denied to the Indigenous people as the United States prepares for expanding imperialist wars in Asia and Africa.

The UK Still Shamefully Occupies The Chagos Islands

June 3, 2022 Richard Norton-Taylor, Progressive International. , , ,
Jagdish Koonjul, the Mauritian ambassador to the UN, last month raised his country’s flag on the Chagos archipelago – what Harold Wilson’s Labor government of 1965 named the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), in a flagrant breach of international law. At a stroke, all the rights of the inhabitants – human, economic, civil – were torn up in a move opposed by international institutions ever since. The British government evicted the entire indigenous population of more than 1,500 islanders from their homes on the archipelago. It realized it could establish a new colony, claim sovereignty over the territory, and ignore a 1960 UN resolution on the right of self-determination – so long as no one lived there.