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Titolo: Pulizie etniche inglesi : Diego Garcia

The islanders were evicted by the British in the 60s and early 70s, after
Britain struck a deal to lease its Indian Ocean territory to the American
military for 50 years. 
The US wanted a base that could operate without interference from the
local population, so Britain expelled nearly 1,800 descendants of African
slaves and Indian plantation workers mainly to the Indian Ocean islands of
Mauritius and the Seychelles. 
At the time, Britain claimed Diego Garcia had no native inhabitants and
the Chagos islanders were simply temporary labourers rather than people
who had lived there for generations. 
An historic ruling by the High Court in London last year deemed the
eviction illegal and won the islanders the right to visit their homeland
after over 30 years in exile.
The islanders have never fully integrated into their adopted communities
and say the expulsion condemned them to a lifetime of poverty. 
Large sections of the Chagos community in Mauritius are unemployed and
lived in squalor, while 4,000 American sailors and contractors enjoy the
beaches of Diego Garcia.
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In 1965, when Mauritius was negotiating its independence from Britain, the
then Prime Minister Harold Wilson made it clear there would be no deal
without the Chagos islands being separated from Mauritius, and retained by
Britain. 
The islands were of great strategic significance - situated right in the
middle of the Indian Ocean - they were in the heart of an area prized by
the then Soviet Union and China. 
What Mauritius did not know was that Britain had already done a deal with
the United States - they would lease the largest island, Diego Garcia, for
use as an air base and ship refuelling station. 
But the Americans did not want a "population problem", as they put it. 
There were about two thousand people living on the islands, mostly working
in the coconut plantations. Descendants of African slaves and Indian
plantation workers, the Chagos islanders had lived there for generations. 
 
Seewoosankar Mandary, who used to work at the weather station
 
So Britain began a systematic, but highly secret, programme of
resettlement. 
No return
Families were accustomed to taking periodic trips to Mauritius by the only
boat available. 
Once there, they - like Oliviers' family - found a return passage was
refused to them. 
This policy continued for several years, until the programme was stepped
up. The plantations were closed down, food supplies ended, and then in
1970, the people on Diego Garcia were called together and told they would
have to leave. 
Seewoosankar Mandary remembers that day well. He was working on the small
weather station on the island, and took some photographs of the moment the
people were told by the British administrator they were being evicted. 
"He told the people there will be changes in the way the place is run. In
a few weeks time you will not be able to stay. The military will come and
you will have to go," Mr Mandary remembered. 
All this was only revealed in 1975, through a United States congressional
inquiry into the Diego Garcia military base. 
But even then, the British government tried to cover it up. They claimed
the Illois had no right to live on the islands, and said they were just
temporary contract workers from Mauritius and the Seychelles. 
In fact, declassified Foreign Office documents discovered at the Public
Records Office in London reveal the policy of deception. 
Embarrassment
One memo, dated 28 July 1965 says: "A small number of people were born
there and, in some cases, their parents were born there too. The intention
is, however, that none of them should be regarded as being permanent
inhabitants of the islands." 
The court case being heard in London this week is an undoubted
embarrassment to the British Government, and they have just revealed they
have begun a feasibility study into whether the Ilois could return to some
of the Chagos Islands, despite the continued presence of the American base
on Diego Garcia. 
 
Unsupecting islanders were taken away in boats
 
A Foreign Office statement released to the BBC says: "The government wants
to be as practical and positive as we can. We are taking the advice of
consultants to assess whether people could return to the outer islands and
what the environmental impact would be." 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/835963.stm
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sarà tutta colpa di blair, in fasce...

 sarą tutta colpa di blair, in fasce...
dove hai letto di blair in questo articolo, idiota accenturiano?
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Non è questione di Blair, è l'Inghilterra che è il Piccolo Satana.

 Non è questione di Blair, è l'Inghilterra che è il Piccolo Satana.
ah questi traditori della BBC... che danno questa immagine da Piccolo
Satana... 
Tu come amalric ogni giorno devi confermare la tua condizione di omuncolo
ridicolo eh ?
Tiè studia e diffondi.
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 ah
Ma chiudi il becco, merdina disonesta. Non hai MAI avuto il coraggio di
UNA sola opinione in tutta la tua miserabile vita, vuoi che perda il mio
tempo a discutere e argomentare con te come se tu avessi mai mostrato
qualcosa che approssima la buona fede?
Non servi neanche da intermezzo comico, fattene una ragione, al più da
esempio negativo - certo nessuno sano di mente si sognerebbe di
trattarti come un interlocutore.

 tempo a discutere 
lo stai perdendo già , ma sei cosi' cretino da non accorgertene eh?
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 lo stai perdendo già , ma sei cosi' cretino da non accorgertene eh?
Rotfl, il fatto che tu consideri *questo* discutere la dice lunga su di te.

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Ma continua che stai dando già  il "meglio" di te stesso, omuncolo
ridicolo che sbraita da Londra
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 esempio negativo
Purtroppo è vero.
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 Purtroppo è vero.
toh, è arrivato l'intermezzo comico.

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lascialo stare, ha problemi legali...:D