We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...
A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it ...
People from the Chagos Islands have been voicing their concerns over news the UK is giving up sovereignty and handing over ...
If the Government have any intention to transfer even one of those 58 islands, they need to have a referendum of the Chagossian people. They need to make a decision themselves, rather than our ...
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 reason Chagos has not become another forgotten UK imperial crime is that the Chagossian people have not allowed it. Numbering in the thousands, and now living mainly in Mauritius, the ...
“We didn’t understand why but they told my father that he didn’t have the right to make furniture for the Chagossian people any more. We had to pack our things and take a boat to the Seychelles. We ...
It should “enable the Chagossian people to return to their ancestral territories… (and) build sustainable and prosperous futures”, he said in a statement. But beyond the difficulties of ...
Jean-Francois Nellan has lived in the UK for 20 years and says the Chagossian community were not involved in talks over their ...
They were claimed by Mauritius, after the country gained independence in 1968. However, the Chagossian people on the Diego Garcia island were forcibly removed by the British in the 1970s.
The year before the UK government launched a British citizenship route for people of Chagossian descent. The joint statement between the UK and Mauritian governments said: "This is a seminal ...