Chagos: The Never-Ending Struggle

The High Court in London is set to decide whether a group of evicted islanders from Chagos - an Indian Ocean archipelago - could go back to their homeland.
The Judges heard a five-day Appeal hearing February 2007.
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett wants to overturn a ruling given in May 2006 that said exiling a population was "repugnant".
Natives from the Chagos Islands were removed by the British Government between 1967 and 1973.
Some of them demonstrated when the hearing started, as Jacques Aristide now reports.

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[lozman67]

I've only just heard about this and am utterly disgusted. This needs wider support - and yes, David Milliband is a bastard - glad now he wasn't elected.

[WELLBRAN]

@nyamorabu Yes and so called left wing socialists were covering it up 

[nyamorabu]

Every time I hear of this story I am absolutely appalled at what governments are capable of doing....the cover-up behind this scheme was just crazy!

[somnambulance]

Much props for posting this.

[SuperJimiRiddle]

I can't believe that nobody has commented on this! But thank you for posting this, I hope to post a text-based video (haven't got a camera or anything you see) portraying as much of the story as possible as soon as possible. Surely what the Government did to these people is a savage violation of human rights. This needs more exposure.