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	Ilois - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ilois, numbering some 2000 people at the time, were expelled by the British Government between 1967 and 1973, first to the island of Peros Banhos, 100 miles away from their homeland, and then, in 1973, to Mauritius and the Seychelles (for the relationship between the Chagos Archipelago and Mauritius, see Chagos Archipelago.
		Their expulsion was purportedly due to the establishment of a joint US-UK naval base of Diego Garcia (the American lease on which is due to expire on 2016), under the pretext that their small islands could not support both the naval base and the civilian population.
		On October 9, 2003, the High Court, questioning the validity of its previous ruling, decreed that the Ilois were not entitled to compensation from the British Government.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Ilois (274 words)

	Ilois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ilois (also known as Chagossians) are a group of Creole-speaking people, mostly of Indian descent (along with populations from Madagascar, Mauritius, and Mozambique), which dwelled on the Chagos Archipelago for a more than a century.
		Most arrived as fisherman, farmers, and coconut plantations workers during the 19th century (some claim that the very first Ilois were brought to the Archipelago as slaves by the French in 1776).
		The Ilois, numbering some 2000 people at the time, were expelled by the British Government between 1967 and 1973, first to the island of Peros Banhos, 100 miles away from their homeland, and then, in 1973, to Mauritius (for the relationship between the Chagos Archipelago and Mauritius, see Chagos Archipelago).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilois (356 words)

	Environmentalists Against War
		More than 400 native Ilois families were driven from their farms and deported to the slums of Maritius.
		The Ilois' "transfer" began in the beginning of the 1970s in the greatest secrecy with Mauritius and the Seychelles as their destination.
		The Ilois, overwhelmed by the government's "stab in the back" are not planning on allowing the issue to rest here, however.
	www.envirosagainstwar.org /know/read.php?itemid=1755 (781 words)

	Diego Garcia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Now, Diego Garcia is home to a military base jointly operated by the United States and the United Kingdom, although in practice it is largely run as a US base, with only a small number of British forces and military police.
		Some of the Ilois are making return plans to turn Diego Garcia into a sugarcane and fishing enterprise as soon as the defence agreement expires (some see this as early as 2016).
		A few dozen other Ilois are still fighting to be housed in the UK[5].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diego_Garcia (910 words)

	The Head Heeb: Back to BIOT
		Both the ilois and the American government kept up the pressure, the former by continuing their lawsuit and the latter by applying subtle persuasion to the FCO.
		Their attorney Richard Gifford greeted the order in council by arguing that "[n]ot since the days of King John has anyone tried to expel British citizens from the realm by executive order." His argument omits the expulsion of Jews under Edward I but is no doubt more accurate about the islanders' emotions than about history.
		If the ilois were allowed to reinhabit the rest of Diego Garcia, the base would be relatively easy to protect and would gain the advantage of a local labor pool.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/025488.html (1178 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 4 Jun 1992
		In fact, the Ilois were forced to squat in the slums of Port Louis or work in sugar plantations--a type of work to which they were not used.
		In 1982 the Ilois Trust Fund was set up with an ex-gratia payment of £4 million from the United Kingdom government, the express purpose of which was to assist with the settlement of the Ilois in Mauritius as self- sufficient members of the community.
		The Ilois community in Mauritius were fully associated with the Agreement, and its representatives took part in negotiations as members of the all-party Mauritian delegation.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-06-04/Debate-6.html (5736 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ilois, former inhabitants of the Chagos, were displaced to Mauritius in the early '70s.
		The Ilois had already suffered tremendous prejudice as a result of their forced displacement and already had a good case for reparation.
		The Ilois were a relatively small group, but they would still be covered by the resolution that was supported by the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees.
	www.unhchr.ch /huricane/huricane.nsf/0/BB8F2F348C03257FC1256AA9004400CC?opendocument (2596 words)

	ILOIS TRUST Online
		Ilois Support Trust [IST] is the only British charity set up exclusively to provide assistance to the Chagossian population of Mauritius.
		Having done a deal in 1965 with the USA to "let" the island for use as a military base, the British Government of the day in Parliament and public denied the existence of an Ilois population and then spent six years removing that population to Mauritius where they were dumped in run-down slum properties.
		The disgraceful mistreatment of the Chagossians became public in 2000 thanks to the tenacity of Olivier Bancoult of the Chagos Refugee Group (CRG) and his supporters who fought and won a legal battle with the British Government.
	www.iloistrust.org (589 words)

	Outsider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In March this year, at the High Court in London, a judge gave one of the Ilois, Louis Bancoult, the right to challenge the British government over his claim that he and others were illegally sent into exile some 30 years ago.
		The Ilois were moved because the USA wanted to build a military base to monitor the Soviet navy.
		The Ilois were put into boats, taken to Mauritius over 2,000 km away, and turned into poverty-stricken exiles.
	www.minorityrights.org /Outsiders/outsider_article.asp?ID=21 (545 words)

	Chagosians/Ilois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The majority of the Ilois were not accustomed to the new economy and were accustomed to learning to live off of their prosperous coconut and sea environment.
		The Ilois had no choice but to settle in their new home on the island of Mauritius, deserted to poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, prostitution, suicide, lack of shelter, illiteracy and unemployment.
		The majority of the Ilois families had been living on the "mother island" since the early 19th century, having originally come from India, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Mozambique to become fisherman, farmers, or to work on coconut plantations.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/chagosians.html (552 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Many of the Ilois are elderly now, but they recall the circumstances of their expulsion.
		But the Ilois, many of whose families had been there since the early 19th century, having originally come from Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique and India to work on copra plantations, certainly liked to think of themselves as a proper, settled community: Diego Garcia boasted a school, a prison, a church and a cemetery.
		Extra compensation was paid to the Ilois in 1982, after the women went on hunger strike, but the agreement included a "no return" clause, which Bancoult says the illiterate Ilois did not understand.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4037416,00.html (1561 words)

	'It Just Takes One Man'
		But the Ilois were unlucky enough to live in an area of strategic importance, near Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
		Mardemootoo questioned why the British immigration ordinance that banned the Ilois from their home had never been challenged in a court of law.
		The Ilois have said they will not interfere with the U.S. base on Diego Garcia, and will be happy to live on the uninhabited part of the island.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines01/0103-02.htm (1854 words)

	3. november 2000
		The applicant was born in 1964 on Peros Banhos.
		in 1968 all the Ilois living on the islands were employed as labourers by the plantation owners (or were members of the families of such labourers) and none pursued a livelihood independent of the plantations.
		The Ilois accepted that they could be moved by their employers from one island to another and even from the islands as a whole if, for example, they were guilty of misconduct.
	www.dikepublishers.com /dansk/diego_garcia/RCJ031100.html (13613 words)

	U.S., Britain opposed resettlement of island - 10/03/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Accustomed to picking coconuts and fishing in their tropical home, they failed to adjust to their new, urban environment, and for the past 30 years they have suffered from poverty and unemployment, according to advocates for the Ilois people.
		U.S. officials at the time demanded secrecy for the construction of a military base they said was crucial to combat a Soviet threat in the Indian Ocean.
		And the Ilois want to explore the possibility of developing part of the island as a tourist resort.
	www.detnews.com /2001/nation/0110/03/a06e-309403.htm (791 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 30 Nov 2000 (pt 33)
		Under a 1982 Agreement between HMG and the Government of Mauritius, the £4 million paid by HMG was placed in a Trust Fund for the benefit of the Ilois.
		In line with the recent court judgment, section 4 of the BIOT Immigration Ordinance 2000 allows the Ilois to visit and remain on the islands of the Territory, excluding Diego Garcia where access will continue to be controlled strictly and will be by permit only.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans Her Majesty's Government have to facilitate the development of improved economic conditions for the Ilois; and what is the time-frame.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/vo001130/text/01130w33.htm (1305 words)

	MRG - recent News and Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ilois were forcibly relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and early 70s when the British government leased the island to the USA for 50 years and it was subsequently turned into a military base.
		The British government initially denied that the Ilois were inhabitants of Diego Garcia and claimed that they were ‘contract labourers’ on the Chagos Islands.
		Compensation should be paid to the families of the Ilois, who were illegally removed, for the damage that they have suffered as a result of this eviction.
	www.minorityrights.org /news_detail.asp?ID=170 (509 words)

	Discover Vancouver Forum - Diego Garcia
		Although Diego Garcia once had a small native population, the inhabitants, known as the Ilois, or the Chagossians, were forced to relocate (1967—1973) so that the island could be turned into a military base—over the strong protestations of other Indian Ocean islands, who objected to having cruise missiles as neighbors.
		Uprooted and robbed of their livelihood, the Ilois now live in poverty in Mauritius's urban slums, more than 1,000 miles from their homeland.
		In 2000, a British court ruled that the order to evacuate Diego Garcia's inhabitants was invalid, but the court also upheld the island's military status, which permits only personnel authorized by the military to inhabit the island.
	www.discovervancouver.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=23652 (233 words)

	Displaced Diego Garcia natives seek home overtaken by U.S. military: 10/3/01
		The plight of the Ilois could easily have been overlooked as an obscure footnote to the Cold War.
		An attorney for the Ilois people, Michael Tigar, a law professor at American University in Washington, disputes the British Embassy's assessment of the meaning of the court decision.
		The Ilois plan to file a lawsuit against the United States to obtain "a substantial amount" of financial compensation, Tigar said.
	www.s-t.com /daily/10-01/10-03-01/a02wn026.htm (1127 words)

	The Head Heeb: Comment on The ICJ's next case? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		All they want is just to go back and pursue their livelihoods in the way that they had done before they were removed; I don’t think it would take much readjustment at all to fit this around British and American security and logistical concerns and interests in the islands.
		Nor would it be difficult to protect the USN base even if the ilois were permitted to repatriate to DG itself, given that the base occupies only a small part of the island.
		The ilois have no known terrorist connections, pose no realistic security threat and would potentially be a valuable addition to the base labor pool.
	www.blogmosis.com /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=25682 (344 words)

	Diego Garcia: UK Parliament debates and statements (2000-2002)
		The Ilois are now able to return to the outer islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
		Friend well understands, there is a good deal of resentment among the Ilois people about the way in which they were removed from the islands by secret interstate negotiations in the 1960s and 1970s, and deposited on Mauritius or, in the case of some, on the Seychelles, given minimum compensation and forgotten about.
		Had the Ilois people remained on the Chagos islands, their elected authority would have been supported by public funds, as is the case in all the other territories.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jksonc/5_parliament.html (5103 words)

	Where in the world is Diego Garcia? By Jeremy Corbyn MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For centuries, the main island of Diego Garcia was populated by some 3,000 descendants of African slaves and Indian labourers known as the Ilois.
		Between 1965 and 1973, the Ilois were evicted by a mixture of trickery, subterfuge and finally force.
		In November 2000, the Ilois won an historic victory in the English High Court.
	www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/0105/page5.htm (504 words)

	:: ak13 :: Ten surviving outposts of the British Empire
		The Ilois, the native inhabitants of this island in the Indian Ocean, were victims of British military might.
		The British forced the Ilois to relocate in the late sixties so that their home could be turned into a joint US-UK air and naval refuelling station.
		The Ilois were even less happy, and most now live in the slums of Mauritius and the Seychelles.
	www.ak13.com /article.php?id=258 (1145 words)

	New Statesman: A little-known and suppressed British atrocity in a faraway island tells us much about the function of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With the militarisation of their island they were given a status rather like that of Australia's Aborigines in the 19th century: they were deemed not to exist.
		The British action violated articles 9 and 13 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which state that "no one should be subjected to arbitrary exile" and "everybody has the right to return to his country".
		According to John Madeley, the author of the Minority Rights Group study, "Britain's treatment of the Ilois people stands in eloquent and stark contrast with the way the people of the Falklands islands were treated in 1982.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4302_v125/ai_18759717 (1086 words)

	ATOPIA: Lost Paradise
		As the British Authorities had defined the Ilois as "contract labourers" with no property rights, the company was legally allowed to ask them to be removed from the islands.
		At that time, the British Authorities qualified the Ilois as "contracts laborers" rather than natives (word used to refer to "indigenous people" in the 1960's) to seek to justify their forced removal.
		The British Governement gave them a £650,000 check in 1973 as "a full discharge of HMG's [Her majesty's government] obligations" and proposed to the Ilois a further £1.5 million on condition that the case was dropped and the Ilois would agree to a "no return clause".
	www.atopiaonline.de /vanish/chagos.htm (2599 words)

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