the Battle for the chagos archipelago, in the Indian ocean, has been going on for years since the british between the years of 1967 and 1973, forced the 2,000 residents from the indigenous people to move to Mauritius where many of them live in deep poverty. Instead erected an american military base on one of the islands, Diego Garcia.
of the sixty-six atolls. None of the other islands are populated.
forced evictions described, according to Aljazeera, in a contemporary telegram to the british secretary of state, as the movements of the ”few Tarzan and the male Friday”, a derogatory description of the inhabitants with reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzankaraktär and Daniel defoe’s elbow Friday in the book ”Robinson Crusoe”.
in the Year 2000, a british court concluded that the forced displacement had no support in the law, but just a few years later it was established that the islanders, despite the fact it does not have the right to either damages or have the right to return.
been important and has, among other things, been used for bombräder into Afghanistan as well as Iraq in the early 2000s. The uk open Diego Garcia to the united states until 2036.
On Monday, the UN’s highest court, the ICJ, with its ruling when it comes to chagos archipelago, where the court draws the conclusion that the Uk illegally taken control over some of the islands when the other gained independence in 1965. ICJ also says that the Uk should surrender the islands, which the british call the British Indian Ocean Territory, to Mauritius.
opposed to the surrender of the islands to Mauritius, and the claim that the us base will help to combat terrorism in the world:
”Försvarsanläggningarna in the British Indian Ocean Territory will help to protect the people here in the Uk and around the world from the threat of terrorism, organised crime and pirates,” writes the british foreign office in a statement as quoted by Aljazeera.
the UN court’s decision, which is not legally binding, is only the 28th time since the court was established in 1946 as the ICJ sought to resolve a dispute between the member states.
