>Ha century after the UK forcibly evicted them from their island homes, Chagossians are still fighting for British citizenship.
>The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands – an archipelago of around 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, located almost 6,000 miles from England – were kicked out of their homeland between the late 1960s and 1973 to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of its atolls. Initially sent to Mauritius and the Seychelles, the former inhabitants and their descendants are not permitted to go back permanently.
If we can welcome scores of thousands of people from Hong Kong with UK citizenship, why not these folk?
We have done some shitty things as a country. Slave trade, fighting wars to deal Heroin, running countries as private businesses.
But this has got to rank up amongst them, and it only happened in the 1960s.
Our demand to leave the EU must be respected as it is what we voted for. The Chagos Islanders desire to be independence when it is what they want? Not so much apparently.
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>Ha century after the UK forcibly evicted them from their island homes, Chagossians are still fighting for British citizenship.
>The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands – an archipelago of around 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, located almost 6,000 miles from England – were kicked out of their homeland between the late 1960s and 1973 to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of its atolls. Initially sent to Mauritius and the Seychelles, the former inhabitants and their descendants are not permitted to go back permanently.
If we can welcome scores of thousands of people from Hong Kong with UK citizenship, why not these folk?
We have done some shitty things as a country. Slave trade, fighting wars to deal Heroin, running countries as private businesses.
But this has got to rank up amongst them, and it only happened in the 1960s.
Our demand to leave the EU must be respected as it is what we voted for. The Chagos Islanders desire to be independence when it is what they want? Not so much apparently.