Another disappointment for the Chagos Islanders ? the latest of many – denied again the right to return home.
This report from RT (includes video) describes in detail the terrible pressure and threats used by the British government at the time of their forced eviction to make way for a military base which is leased to the United Sates military (link):
RT says:
?Among the methods British and US authorities used to drive the Chagossians off their island was killing their pets en masse with exhaust fumes and threatening to shoot, bomb or starve the natives themselves.?
The British government are offering a miserly
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