Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Makes you proud to be British http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38003791 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 I would recommend anyone to watch the John pilger documentary on this stealing a nation. The UK and USA really are the greatest criminal colonialist states in human history. Absolutely disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpma Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I'll happily give up my home for a slice of 40 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Would you give up your entire country for a slice of it not big enough to buy a house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Would you expect to at least be asked first and perhaps get the money on a slightly quicker timescale than 50 years after being forcibly evicted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 £40M sounds good, but it over 10years (assuming they actually pay it), and the approx number of Chagos exiles is 3000. That £13,333.33 each, or £1333.33 a year each. Party time for 50 years of getting fucked over by the US & UK governments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 130 quid a year hahaha we are the scummiest country ever that's horrendous. You couldn't make it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 20 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said: £40M sounds good, but it over 10years (assuming they actually pay it), and the approx number of Chagos exiles is 3000. That £1,333.33 each, or £133.33 a year each. Party time for 50 years of getting fucked over by the US & UK governments it's actually £13,333.33p each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 1 minute ago, sjc said: it's actually £13,333.33p each. TYPO Corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Oh well that makes it fine. Helpma I'd like to offer 13 grand for your house and the country that surrounds it. You will be removed by force this evening and can expect the first payment in 2067. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I would recommend anyone to watch the John pilger documentary on this stealing a nation. The UK and USA really are the greatest criminal colonialist states in human history. Absolutely disgusting. Don't forget to include Mauritius who sold Britain the islands in 1965 for £3million and then got a further £600,000 compensation in 1967. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 The UK has always treated indigenous people horrifically. You'll find your average Brexit/white supremacist are proud of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 5 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: Don't forget to include Mauritius who sold Britain the islands in 1965 for £3million and then got a further £600,000 compensation in 1967. I'm heading that way in February ill drink one less cocktail a day in protest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aladdin Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I dont think there is any dispute that the British treated the islanders shockingly but the US isnt going to give up one of its largest foreign bases. To be honest, it doesnt sound like the islands could sustain a population nowadays. Anyway, why would you want to live on a tropical island when you can have a council house in Hull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 I don't know what makes you think it couldn't support a population (it supports a population of us military just fine) or what concern that is of yours anyway. Some mmore fuzzy British niceness On 1 April 2010, the British government Cabinet established the Chagos Archipelago as the world's largest marine reserve. At 640,000 km2, it is larger than France or the US state of California. It doubled the total area of environmental no-take zones worldwide.[6] The protection of the marine reserve will be guaranteed for the next five years thanks to the financial support of the Bertarelli Foundation.[7] The setting up of the Marine Reserve would appear to be an attempt to prevent any resettlement by the evicted natives in the 1960s and 1970s. Leaked US Cables have shown the FCO suggesting to the US counterparts that setting up a protected no-take zone would make it "difficult, if not impossible" for the islanders to return. The reserve was then created in 2010.[8] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 3000 Chagossians chose to live in Crawley rather than Mauritius. I'll leave it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 This is what the un is supposed to be for, one of the largest and most flagrant breaches of international law here. In a just world the UK and USA would be given 90 days to fully vacate, apologies and pay massive reparations, and fined a billion quid a day every day they go over by, all under threat of force if we fail to comply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 No idea if this is true or not but... Quote In the midst of the Cold War, the United States decided it wanted a military base in the Indian Ocean to keep the USSR and China from threatening the Arabian Gulf. Suddenly the Chagos archipelago was more than just an insignificant speck on the map. The US’ first choice location for a new base was the uninhabited Aldabra Atoll, but Harold Wilson, the then British Prime Minister, feared antagonism from ecologists, as Aldabra is home to a rare breed of turtle. So he offered Diego Garcia instead, even though it was inhabited. http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/the-eviction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Willie Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 57 minutes ago, Peppino Impastato said: I don't know what makes you think it couldn't support a population (it supports a population of us military just fine) or what concern that is of yours anyway. Some mmore fuzzy British niceness On 1 April 2010, the British government Cabinet established the Chagos Archipelago as the world's largest marine reserve. At 640,000 km2, it is larger than France or the US state of California. It doubled the total area of environmental no-take zones worldwide.[6] The protection of the marine reserve will be guaranteed for the next five years thanks to the financial support of the Bertarelli Foundation.[7] The setting up of the Marine Reserve would appear to be an attempt to prevent any resettlement by the evicted natives in the 1960s and 1970s. Leaked US Cables have shown the FCO suggesting to the US counterparts that setting up a protected no-take zone would make it "difficult, if not impossible" for the islanders to return. The reserve was then created in 2010.[8] Rule Britannia.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 To play devil's advocate here... more people will be displaced by the construction of Heathrow Runway 3 than were evacuated from the BIOT. Obviously the circumstances surrounding their resettlement and compensation at the time were exceedingly badly handled (partly since Mauritius took a variety of compensation packages for them then were tardy in distributing) but it's not as if the notion of compulsorily taking land and moving people off it to build something "in the national interest" has only been done far away. As a nation who committed the Highland and Lowland clearances we should be careful of occupying too haughty a position on forced migration, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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