England as an Occupier : in Mauritius

CHAGOS isands

Mauritius says it was forced to trade the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean in 1965 for independence.

The UK says it does not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty.

Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) insists it has every right to hold onto the islands

- one of which, Diego Garcia, is home to a US military airbase.

The UN had given the UK six months to give up control of the Chagos Islands

- but that period has now passed.

"The UK has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)

which has been under continuous British sovereignty since 1814" it said in a statement.

"Mauritius has never held sovereignty over the BIOT and the UK does not recognise its claim."

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony.

Britain purchased it for £3m - creating the BIOT.

In May, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelming in favour of the Chagos Islands being returned

- with 116 states backing the move and only six against.

The UN said that the decolonisation of Mauritius

"was not conducted in a manner consistent with the right to self-determination" and that therefore the

"continued administration... constitutes a wrongful act".

The UN resolution came only three months after the UN's high court advised the UK

should leave the islands "as rapidly as possible".

As the six-month period came to a close, Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth

said the UK was now an illegal colonial occupier.~~

ketchim post=376938 Wrote:CHAGOS isands

Mauritius says it was forced to trade the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean in 1965 for independence.

Di'ze all deh had tuh pay?

deh take Trinidad central bank called the Treasury, on St Vincent street in Port of Spain. Trinidad still ensalved 60 years later

I just cannot comprehend why they would refuse the UN and Court decisions ~

is it because of the American military base like the Guantanamo US base in CUBA

the British/Americans and Zios are the same..one, a unit. the zios controlled the British empire and segued it into the american. empire..which they also control totally

the British fcreated the BIOT for the purpose of Diego Garcia. now more than ever those interests..ZIONAZI...need Diego Garcia as they are likely to be evicted from all their other locations in the Pacific, middle east.