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	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		Chagossians are the descendants of African and Malagasy slaves who inhabited the islands since the 18th century.
		Because of an American stipulation that "no Chagossian presence could be suffered within proximity of the US base", the entire Chagossian population was forcibly removed, either to Mauritius or to the Seychelles.
		In November 1998, 500 Chagossians peacefully demonstrated in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius.
	www.hri.ca /tribune/viewArticle.asp?ID=2434 (549 words)

	Chagossians (British Indian Ocean Territory) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chagossians (Chagos Islands natives) have been expelled from the Chagos in 1973.
		The only flag for the Chagossians is a recent one.
		It's worth noting that the Chagossians, earlier this year, won the right in the British courts to return to their homeland.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/io-chago.html (451 words)

	Ilois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ilois or Îlois (also known as Chagossians) are a group of Creole-speaking people, mostly of Indian descent (along with populations from Madagascar, Mauritius, and Mozambique).
		Their forced (and, according to some authorities, illegal) expulsion and dispossession was for the purpose of establishing a US air and naval base on Diego Garcia, where a small contingent of UK military personnel are stationed as well.
		Their case was brought to the High Court of Justice in London by a British firm of solicitors, Sheridans, and on November 3, 2000 the High Court ruled in their favour, stipulating that they should be allowed to return to their homeland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilois (699 words)

	CampusProgress.org \| Expelled From Home
		As the first Chagossian leader to come to the United States, Bancoult represents the Chagossian people in two class action lawsuits, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom, seeking compensation for mistreatment and the right of return.
		Chagossians are strictly barred by the U.S. government from employment on Diego Garcia: 540 Chagossians have applied for employment; not one has been hired.
		What Chagossians want is the right to return home, receive fair and equal employment opportunities, and compensation for what they have suffered, which he says would enable them to begin to rebuild the flourishing society that was uprooted 30 years ago.
	www.campusprogress.org /features/615/expelled-from-home (1372 words)

	Chagos Islanders v. Attorney General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The false statements were that the Chagossians were not permanent residents of, and had no rights to remain in, the Chagos islands, had no rights under the UN Charter and were not British citizens.
		Although the Immigration Ordinance 2000 permitted Chagossians to return to BIOT except for Diego Garcia, the Defendants were not obliged to undertake the investment required for a viable resettlement of those islands.
		The Chagossians alone were made to pay a personal price for the defence establishment on Diego Garcia, which was regarded by the UK and US Governments as necessary for the defence of the West and its values.
	www.uniset.ca /naty/2003EWHC2222.htm (15658 words)

	Asia Times: US B-52 base at Diego Garcia under legal attack
		They insisted that the Chagossians, also called the Ilois, consisted entirely of seasonal contract workers from Mauritius and Seychelles and were thus not indigenous to the islands.
		From 1965 to 1973, the Chagossians were removed from their homes, while the United States began building what would become its most important naval and air base in the Indian Ocean, virtually equidistant from Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and, of course, Afghanistan.
		They also banned Chagossians from returning to the islands, even as temporary construction workers, at the same time that hundreds of workers from Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines were hired to build and expand the base, according to the complaint.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DA22Df02.html (932 words)

	Islas Malvinas Onlne, Indian Ocean Islanders Take On a Superpower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chagossians were starved out, pets were gassed before the eyes of the islands' children, and finally, the islanders were loaded onto freighters and shipped off to the Seychelles and Mauritius.
		According to one proposal, the Chagossians would be classified as migrant workers from Mauritius and the Seychelles, which would conveniently legitimize their deportation.
		In 2000, the High Court declared the deportations illegal and ruled that the displaced Chagossians were within their rights in seeking to return to the islands.
	www.malvinasonline.com.ar /notas/nota.php?recordID=142 (1381 words)

	untitled: Diego Garcia And The Special Relationship's Dirty Secret
		There was another proviso, however: to qualify for compensation, the Chagossians had to sign a document waiving their rights both to future claims and to return to their islands.
		It would be difficult to find a Chagossian who could not recount in detail what happened next, regardless of whether it actually happened to them; their "deracinement", or uprooting, defines them as a people.
		Chagossians who apply for jobs there are routinely rejected, as are their requests to return to the eastern half of the island, a designated nature reserve unused by the military.
	danielsimpson.blogspot.com /2006/03/diego-garcia-and-special-relationships.html (4542 words)

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		Chagossians employed on fishing vessels often go on fishing expeditions and are at sea for weeks or even months on end.
		Chagossian applicants have been qualified in the skills required for the positions, yet all applicants known to be native-born Chagossians have been summarily rejected.
		The few Chagossians accepted for jobs on Diego Garcia were born in Mauritius and actively and successfully hid their Chagossian heritage from the hiring personnel.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/bancoult-d3.html (7155 words)

	Steffen Johannessen
		Chagossians expressing this narrative when representing their history, the places involved, Chagos and Mauritius, are communicated in radical oppositions where Chagos comes to represent the solutions to current problems, and in turn forming the foundation for a prevailing longing for 'home'.
		Inhabiting Mauritius whose Independence was granted in the course of secret political negotiations in the mid sixties that led to the expulsions of the Chagossians, the Chagossians' historical representations conflict with the myths on which the post-independent Mauritian nation is based.
		Exiled or displaced in Mauritius, the Chagossian community is reproduced in a constituent dialogue with the Mauritian over-ethnic nation, and positive identification of their community draw on material outside the time/space limits of the Mauritian state.
	www.sai.uio.no /studier/hoyere_grad/sammendrag-kandidatoppgaver/2005/Johannessen.html (329 words)

	Island Vulnerability, Overseas Territories, United Kingdom
		The Chagossians were called "Tarzans or Man Fridays" in one internal memo from diplomat Dennis Greenhill and lies were told to parliament and the United Nations about the Chagossians' history of inhabiting the islands.
		Chagossians took the UK government to court in London to obtain a ruling that their eviction was illegal and that they have a right to return.
		Chagossians were still not able to visit their homes because they decline to visit their islands unless Diego Garcia is included.
	www.islandvulnerability.org /otuk.html (4725 words)

	Diego Garcia
		The Chagossians, who did not initially leave under the ‘holiday' pretext or on their own fruition, were rounded up in the early 1970s.
		Furthermore, they assert that the Chagossians claims are between them and Britain, and that the U.S. has no culpability for it only has a land lease on the island, not administrative control.
		When or more accurately if the Chagossians are allowed to return, it is unlikely that their lives would improve on any substantive level.
	www.american.edu /TED/ice/diego-garcia.htm (5296 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Home at last for exiles of Diego Garcia
		In 2000, the Chagossians, financed by legal aid, won a High Court case which declared their exile unlawful and that they had a right to return to some of the outlying islands.
		Talate was among the last of the Chagossians to leave the archipelago in 1973.
		The Chagossians say rumours were spread that they would be bombed if they did not leave, and that officials gassed their pet dogs.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=371332006 (1486 words)

	Diego Garcia: island at intersection of many struggles -- News & Letters, January-February 2004
		Two thousand Chagossians, who had lived there for generations were forcibly removed over the period 1965-1973, and dumped on the dockside in Port Louis, Mauritius.
		The torture that the Chagossians suffered was inflicted on them by the United Kingdom, the colonizer, and the United States of America, the military base owner.
		The legal victory of the Chagossians was thanks to the oldest of all human rights documents, the Magna Carta of 1215, which shows the surprising longevity of the landmarks in the struggle for human rights and democracy.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2004/Jan-Feb/DiegoGarcia_Jan-Feb04.htm (980 words)

	Reclaiming Diego Garcia: support the ship! \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Two thousand Chagossians [people of the Chagos Islands] who had lived there for generations were forcibly removed over the period 1965-1973, and dumped on the dockside in Port Louis, Mauritius.
		Only in the year 2000 could the Chagossians finally win their landmark Court Case in the UK Courts for the right to return.
		In their quest for the truth to be out and justice to be had, the Chagossians now have a Reparations Case in the US Courts.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/1614 (617 words)

	afrol News - Evicted Chagos islanders granted short visit home
		According to several Chagossians living in Britain, they were not invited to the historic visit, causing loud protests.
		While the 102 Chagossians leaving Port Louis yesterday were happy to finally see their islands again, many more felt it unfair that they had not been given the same opportunity.
		Chagossians in Britain in 2000 nearly won the right to return to their homeland as the London High Court ruled their eviction had been illegal and that they could return.
	www.afrol.com /articles/18716 (863 words)

	Chagossians
		When Chagossians go to the Social Security Office to collect their compensation they are required to endorse, by signature or thumbprint, a renunciation form forfeiting their right to ever return home.
		Chagossians file a class action suit against the US government suing for reparations and the right to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands.
		The Chagossians had been forcibly removed from their homes in the early 1970s (see July 27, 1971-May 26, 1973) so the US could build a base on Diego Garcia.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=chagossians (2166 words)

	United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Unless this decision is overturned by the high court next month, the Chagossians' fate may well be sealed." -- One thinks of Walter Bagehot's encouragement to a young boy who hesitated to break his soft-boiled egg by hitting it with a spoon: "You needn't be afraid.
		Ever since, the Chagossians, most of whom live in poverty in Mauritius where they were dumped by the British, have fought for their right to return.
		In 2000, the Chagossians won an extraordinary legal victory allowing their return to the outlying islands in the archipelago.
	www.ufppc.org /content/view/3606/2 (981 words)

	l'express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chagossians challenged the validity of these Orders in Council in August 2004 and, last week, the court ruled that the Orders were indeed unlawful and quashed them.
		Now that the court has declared that the Chagossians have the right to go back and live on the islands, the Government has a duty to make this return possible; otherwise, it is a direct violation of one of its treaty obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights.
		Chagossians have been given the right to go back to their homeland, “a historic event” for the press and for many observers, who see in it only the fair ruling of a country that had denied the islanders the right to live in their homeland for more than thirty years.
	www.lexpress.mu /display_article_sup.php?news_id=65018 (1275 words)

	London Calling
		Nor is it true (as Pilger implies) that the fate of the Chagossians was completely neglected during the late sixties.
		At roughly the same time, Harold Wilson and his colleagues were also threatening the lives of millions of Ibos and Ibibios in the nascent state of Biafra, by covertly supplying arms to the Nigerian military regime.
		No, the reason for reminding you in these pages of the crimes against the Chagossians is that, less than a decade before they were committed, two other Indigenous south Pacific communities suffered a strikingly similar betrayal.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Aboutus/londoncall44.htm (1697 words)

	Guardian \| No place called home
		The story begins in 1968, when the Chagossians were flung off their homeland islands in the Indian Ocean to make way for a US military base.
		In a landmark victory in November 2000, the high court ruled that "the wholesale removal" of the islanders was an "abject legal failure" and that they could return to the small outlying islands in the group but not the largest, Diego Garcia.
		A study conducted for the Chagossians refutes the idea that resettlement is "impractical" and says the government's argument is "erroneous in every assertion".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4771276-103677,00.html (833 words)

	[No title]
		Between 1965 and 1973, the Chagossians were forcibly removed from their homeland and stranded without any means for survival on the islands of Mauritius and the Seychelles.
		Non-Chagossians are permitted access to the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago 2 and recruited for employment on the Diego Garcia military facility; however, Defendants continue the forced exile of the Chagossian population by systematically excluding all Chagossians from employment opportunities on Diego Garcia and access to the entire Chagos Archipelago.
		The Chagossians requested that on this trip they be able to visit all of the islands, including Diego Garcia, where their ancestral homes, graves, and churches still stand.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/bancoult-d58.html (3070 words)

	GNN - Government News Network
		Accompanied by a doctor and two priests, the Chagossians landed from the MV Mauritius Trochetia onto the small jetty on the island and then proceeded to conduct a church service in the long abandoned, roofless church.
		Wandering through the jungle pathways the Chagossians then went to the graveyard where they spent time tending their families' graves.
		The humanitarian visit is being jointly organised by the British and Mauritian governments in co-operation with leaders of the Chagossian communities.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=194710&NewsAreaID=2 (221 words)

	11 Kings Bench Walk Chambers, London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The plight of the Chagossians was recently the subject of a television documentary by John Pilger.
		The Chagossians are all British citizens, not subject to immigration control and are therefore permitted to work in the UK.
		Before Collins J, the Chagossians argued that the Council was under a duty to assess their needs under section 47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and to provide them with accommodation and assistance under section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948.
	www.11kbw.com /index.php?category_id=000006&art_id=000351 (911 words)

	l'express
		Five years ago, things were looking bright, as the Chagossians won a case in the High Court in London, which condemned their expulsion from the islands.
		If the story of the Chagossians, from their expulsion to their days in Mauritius, has been one of near resignation, a new dawn of resolution has surfaced among them.
		This new enterprising spirit among the Chagossians is reflected in the way they have confronted the British authorities and fought for their rights.
	www.lexpress.mu /display_article_sup.php?news_id=57386 (1081 words)

	Mark Curtis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The background is that around 2,000 Chagossians - the entire community - were depopulated from the Chagos islands from 1968-73 following the UK's agreement to allow the US to use the largest island, Diego Garcia, as a military base.
		The Chagossians are currently appealing against this ruling and seeking to uphold their right to return.
		The government is fighting the Chagossians tooth and nail in court; its legal fees currently come to over £1.5 million spent on defeating this poor community, who have no money and rely on hand-outs to come to the UK, and the support of the Chagos Support Association, run on a shoestring budget.
	www.medialens.org /weblog/mark_curtis.php (1251 words)

	Land Use Prof Blog: Shale in Utah, Chagossians in the Indian Ocean ...
		Shale in Utah, Chagossians in the Indian Ocean...
		The second story concerned a recent decision of a British court in favor of the Chagossians, the native people of the Indian Ocean's Diego Garcia, who were expelled from the British-owned island in the the 1970s so that the United States could build a military base in the strategic location.
		Although the D.C. Circuit recently held that the U.S. government's actions were political questions and that the U.S. government owes the people no compensation, British courts are turning in the other direction.
	lawprofessors.typepad.com /land_use/2006/05/shale_in_utah_c.html (324 words)

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