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THE British government is guilty of historic and ongoing “crimes against humanity” over its treatment of exiled Chagos Islanders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
In a damning report published today, the group called on Britain to pay full and unconditional reparations to generations affected by the forced displacement of Chagossians from their homeland by Britain in the 1960s and ’70s, as well as the right to return.
Britain agreed to lease the island of Diego Garcia — the largest of the 60 small islands of the Chagos Archipelago — to the US to allow it to build a military base in 1967.
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