Islanders or Chagossians. Chagossians and human rights advocates have said that the Chagossian right of occupation was violated by the British Foreign...
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fishermen, farmers, and coconut plantation workers during the 19th century. The Chagossians speak Chagossian Creole, a French-based creole language whose vocabulary...
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facilitated several visits to the territory by the eldest Chagossians, and environmental training for UK-based Chagossians that allows some to become involved in...
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Diego Garcia (redirect from History of Diego Garcia)
joint UK–U.S. military base since the 1970s, following the expulsion of the Chagossians by the UK government. The Chagos Islands have been a British...
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Chagos Archipelago (redirect from History of the Chagos Archipelago)
finalisation of a treaty. Some Chagossians have criticised the deal for not having included the Chagossian community in the decision-making process. On the same...
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Joan Donoghue (category Presidents of the International Court of Justice)
United Kingdom's separation of the Chagos Islands from the rest of Mauritius in 1965, leading to the expulsion of the Chagossians when both were colonial...
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of Camp Justice was the impetus for the British government's expulsion of the Chagossians. The entire population of approximately 1,600 Chagossians were...
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Smudging (section Use of smoke in other cultures)
rites involving the burning of sacred herbs (e.g., white sage) or resins, is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas. While it...
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American...
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have been behind both the excision of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory and the forcible expulsion of the Chagossians from their lands to...
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Louis Olivier Bancoult (category Chagossian people)
Kingdom. Anglo-American occupation of the Chagos Archipelago Expulsion of the Chagossians "Court victory for Chagos families". BBC News. "Home CRG – Chagos...
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John Pilger (redirect from The New Rulers of the World)
breach of the ITC Programme Code". Pilger's documentary Stealing a Nation (2004) recounts the expulsion of the Chagossians by Britain and the USA between...
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independence from the United Kingdom on 12 March 1968. The independence process was the culmination of a long struggle involving a number of political parties...
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Granada Television documentary about the British–American clandestine operation that saw the expulsion of the Chagossian population who have lived on Diego...
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Due to the Expulsion of the Chagossians, there are no Chagossians living on the Chagos Archipelago. The majority of Chagossians now live in the United...
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Mark Curtis (British author) (category Alumni of the London School of Economics)
such as the expulsion of the Chagossians, UK government involvement in the Indonesian Communist Purge, Operation Ajax, the Mau Mau Uprising and the Malayan...
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Liseby Elysé (category Chagossian people)
2019, the Court handed down its decision in its advisory opinion, recognising on the one hand the forced expulsion of the Chagossians, and on the other...
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1999 L'Amicale riots (section Aftermath of riots)
The 1999 L'Amicale Riots started in the evening of Sunday 23 May 1999 in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius after angry supporters of Scouts Club vandalised...
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Internet Computer Bureau (category Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom)
involvement in registration of .io domains associated with the Diego Garcia military base following the expulsion of the Chagossian population, ICB was sold...
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Huna (New Age) (category Religious organizations established in the 1930s)
for "secret") is the word adopted by the non-Hawaiian New Age author Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) in 1936 to describe his theory of metaphysics. Long...
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who lived in Old Dhaka. The expulsion of the Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago by the United Kingdom, at the request of the United States to establish...
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Right to homeland (redirect from The right to homeland)
Diaspora politics Ethnic federalism Expulsion of the Chagossians Hawaiian homeland Home rule Jewish homeland Right of return Right to exist Nation state...
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Illovo Deal (category Agriculture companies of Mauritius)
Illovo Deal refers to the 2001 sale of large areas of agricultural land in Mauritius, with involvement of the State. In the local Mauritian press it s...
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The 1999 Mauritian riots were national-scale rioting and protests in Mauritius following the death of the popular "seggae" musician Joseph Réginald Topize...
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1965 and progressed to the historic village of Mahébourg. The unrest eventually led to the declaration of a nationwide State of Emergency on what was then...
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The 1968 Mauritian riots or Bagarre raciale Plaine Verte refers to a number of violent clashes that occurred in the Port Louis neighbourhoods of Cité Martial...
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used on the island of Mauritius to refer to private organisations whose primary objectives are to consolidate human and moral values, strengthen the family...
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Jessy Marcelin (category Chagossian people)
the atoll of Peros Banhos, part of the Chagos Archipelago. In 1970, she was forced to leave Chagos during the expulsion of the Chagossians from the archipelago...
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1943 Belle Vue Harel Massacre (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
Harel Sugar Estate, near the village of Belle Vue Harel on the island of Mauritius in September 1943. The riots led to the death of 4 people with an additional...
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April 1973 (category Months in the 1970s)
body. The United Kingdom concluded its forced expulsion of the Chagossians, residents of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, by evacuating the Peros...
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