The Last British Colony in Africa | How Chagossians were Forced off Their Homeland
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2023
- In the 1960s and 1970s , the UK forced the entire Chagossian population off their homeland so the US could build a military base on the island of Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Archipelago. Since then, families have been separated, living mostly in the Seychelles, Mauritius and the UK. This video sheds a light on the human rights abuses Chagossians have suffered and their ongoing campaign for their right to return to their homeland.
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Correction:
At 12:08 in the video, Ellianne says “In 2003, the British granted British citizenship to the Chagossians and their first generations.”
The correct year was 2002.
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I only just heard of this for the first time! People really need to know about theses people's story
There are some good resources out there to learn more. The novel 'An Impossible Return' by Caroline Laurent is a moving account of Chagossians expulsion from their homeland on Diego Garcia, their poverty-stricken exile on Mauritius and their fight to return. It is also a revealing condemnation of UK government policies then and now, characterised as they are by racism, dishonesty and plain inhumanity
@@peterdaw99 thank you
This is also new to me, sad, cruel, unjust and inhumane.
Chagossians deserve to live in peace in their islands. This is such a shocking, shameful, heart-breaking, dreadful story. It's betrayal and a scourge on the UK. Well worth watching John Pilger's film 'Stealing a Nation' if you haven't already.
The Chagos archipelago never actually belonged to the Chagossians. The Chagossians were not native inhabitants. They were brought to the archipelago by the French in the late 18th century. No family inhabited the area for more than ~170 years consecutively, under both French and British rule.
I say this because rebalancing the checkbook of history is an untenable process, especially given the fact that there are *far* more disadvantaged people out there than the Chagossians.
I don’t get why in the 1960’s there was a fear of Chagossians becoming an internal security threat. Nowadays there’s over a thousand Filipino contractors there who definitely don’t have security clearances, and that’s okay with the U.S. Why not just give those jobs to the Chagossians?
It breaks our hearts to see the disgusting and disastrous effect on the good people of the Chagos Islands and their descendants. The wrongs MUST be righted; a right of return for them and their children/grandchildren is the right and proper thing for the UK, US & Mauritian governments to do. In addition, you MUST compensate them directly for their suffering. It will not fix everything, but it is a step in the right direction. Our campaign (BOTC Campaign) got involved as we were fighting for our British nationality & citizenship rights for children of descent born out-of-wedlock to British overseas territories parents. We managed to convince the government to fix our wrongs but were acutely aware that the issue of nationality & citizenship rights went way beyond just us. So we utilized our campaign to join the Chagossian groups to raise awareness and eventually helped get them added to the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 right at the last minute. We want the best for these good people, and so should everyone else-time to put to bed the last British colony mentality. Do the right things, please!
Ironically, there would be no Chagossians if it wasn't for colonialism.
You need to learn your history. The Chagossians were not native to the archipelago. They were brought there as slaves in the late 18th century (by the French).
They lived there for about a century and a half, under French and British rule.
Furthermore, they already received compensation on two separate occasions, totaling about $25m USD in 2024 equivalent, on top of receiving British citizenship.
It sounds to me like you should be more worried about minorities that are far more oppressed, like the Jewlsh people for instance. More of their people have been killed by Jihadist elements over the past year than the total number of people that ever inhabited the Chagos archipelago.
I could name hundreds of other historically more 'disadvantaged' minorities. Play me the world's smallest violin.
It is such a disgrace and makes me sick to my stomach. Peoples' lives don't count in some peoples' heads (in the absence of any consciousness , respect for others or heart) .... so much bad Karma for the perpetrators and their ideology, I hope will soon cause implosion of these systems....
Talk about Gaza, West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Look what the UK did to Chagos people. The worst crime against humanity. They have to be brought to justice.
Western hypocrisy
Grateful for the information
This video is so important for everyone to see! I first learnt about the Chagossians in Mark Thomas's book "50 things about us," and then in "Freedom Next Time" by John Pilger. I'd recommend them to anyone who has the time
The Chagossians were not actually native inhabitants. They were brought to the archipelago by the French in the late 18th century. No family inhabited the area for more than ~170 years consecutively, under both French and British rule.
The people who were expelled received financial compensation (~5 million USD equivalent in 1980), and all but a dozen of them signed an agreement. The ones brought to Britain received citizenship.
Now, obviously I agree that the manner in which these people were forced from the island is unacceptable, especially by todays standards.
However, I also think that the geopolitical importance of the military base as well as the continuity and competent management of the IO TLD far outweighs the grievances of the former inhabitants of the archipelago, who can now enjoy the vast benefits of citizenship in a first world country.
The fact that they continue to seek financial compensation even over the registration fee of the .IO domain shows that these are mostly misguided attempts at rebalancing the checkbook of history. If we were to rebalance all checkbooks since the 1960's the world would be in utter chaos.
Illégal colony .
Sad 😔
St Helena is also a British colony in Africa.
Chagos is illigally a British colony
@@neofilsBoth are on the UN decolonization list. The difference is St Helena retained its population.
There are four British territories in Africa ascension island, st. Helena, Tristan da cuhna and the British Indian Ocean territory
*Ачоиб инглисхо мефахрида бошан аз чунин дастоварди кишвари худ??*
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SHAME to the U S and U.K
Sad!
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It isn't the last British colony in Africa. St. Helena is the other one.
The island should be returned to the people.
These people have British passport . a precious asset away from tsunami etc on these sandy atolls with a fragile eco system .; those who wanted to remained Mauritian citizens were hugely compensated . During WWII the main island were used for hydra planes . The legal papers for owning the Chagos Archipelago dated back to Napoleonic France ; it is assumed that these atoll were seized/ sold for war reparation . It is another Alaska case sold to the USA.
The Chagos Archipelago and Diego Garcia is not in Africa but in India 36°24'50.2"N 78°47'31.9"E in the Sub-continent of India and is a part of the Lakshadvipa Archipelago. and the Chagos archipelago Islands are historically a part of India and part of the Lakshadvipa Archipelago, and a façade is being perpetrated as though the Chagos is a part of the continent of Africa to subvert the fact that the Chagos Archipelago is an integral part of the Sub-continent of India and ought to have returned to the Republic of India along with the Sukhadara Dvipa in 1947 when the English were thrown out of India by the Indian National Army or the Azad Hind Fauj of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose .
Too bad for you the U.N considered it part of Africa . I am Mauritian
India was not even a united country before the brits darling . Stop your propaganda
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British about the Falkland/Malvinas :
we care about the will of the islanders
British about chagos : XD