Denying Justice to the Chagossians
07.08.07 - 03:43pm
The British Foreign Office has lodged yet another appeal to the House of Lords in its continuing efforts to deny justice to the hundreds of families exiled from their former home, the Chagos Archipelago. In one of the most shameful acts in British history, in the 1960s the Government, through subterfuge and force, depopulated the Chagos islands in order to hand over the largest land mass, Diego Garcia, to the United States to use as a military base. Ever since, the Chagossians have been fighting to right this dreadful wrong and return home.
