06/04/2007
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Homecoming. Somebody bothered the Old Testament defining it the Golia's defeat by David's
hands. Sure is that the battle between Ilois, a small community of about two thousand
people driven off from Chagos archipelago to build a military basis, and the British
government has been won, once in a while, by the weakest. Islanders were deported
from their lands in the very middle of the Indian Ocean between the 60s and the
70s. On the Diego Garcia, one of the 65 British islands in the archipelago, Americans
wanted to build one the the most important bases, strategically positioned between
Africa and Indonesia, equidistant from all the Indian Ocean shores in a place
difficult to reach and to attack.
Legal battle. At the time of the claim, the British Crown hardly recognised a community of
few Creole thousands souls originating from Mauritius and living on the atolls
out of fishing and palm oil production. And it did not imagine that after being
deported the Ilois people would have started a stubborn legal battle against the
British Foreign Office decision to relocate them to Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles
or Europe, the places where they currently live. On the basis of documents now
made public a British court declared that Chagos inhabitants had been illegally
deported. Ilois were authorised to get back but Her Majesty government resorted
to the 'Royal privilege', and institution that exceptionally allows ministers
to override court decisions in the Queen's name. in 2006 the Supreme Court rejected
the motivations forbidding the Ilois' return but the government turned to the
Court of Appeal, that two days ago decided: the method used by the government
to prevent natives' return is illegal and constituted a power abuse.
Secret custody centre. Here are the words of the judge presiding the Court: “while a natural or human-caused
disaster may result in the temporary or even definitive removal of a population
for its protection, the permanent exclusion of a whole people from their lands
for reasons not directly connected to the collective wealth cannot be legally
conducted by the government power privilege”. The British government can now appeal
to the House of Lords within a month. The Diego Garcia island is the largest of
the Chagos archipelago, being 25 kilometres long and 10 large. The B-52 bombers
used during Iraq and Afghanistan missions took off from there. It is suspected
that the island has also been used as a secret custody centre for presumed al
Qaeda terrorists.
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The case against British government has been won. The inhabitants driven off by the Diego Garcia will finally get back home
Homecoming. Somebody bothered the Old Testament defining it the Golia's defeat by David's
hands. Sure is that the battle between Ilois, a small community of about two thousand
people driven off from Chagos archipelago to build a military basis, and the British
government has been won, once in a while, by the weakest. Islanders were deported
from their lands in the very middle of the Indian Ocean between the 60s and the
70s. On the Diego Garcia, one of the 65 British islands in the archipelago, Americans
wanted to build one the the most important bases, strategically positioned between
Africa and Indonesia, equidistant from all the Indian Ocean shores in a place
difficult to reach and to attack.
Legal battle. At the time of the claim, the British Crown hardly recognised a community of
few Creole thousands souls originating from Mauritius and living on the atolls
out of fishing and palm oil production. And it did not imagine that after being
deported the Ilois people would have started a stubborn legal battle against the
British Foreign Office decision to relocate them to Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles
or Europe, the places where they currently live. On the basis of documents now
made public a British court declared that Chagos inhabitants had been illegally
deported. Ilois were authorised to get back but Her Majesty government resorted
to the 'Royal privilege', and institution that exceptionally allows ministers
to override court decisions in the Queen's name. in 2006 the Supreme Court rejected
the motivations forbidding the Ilois' return but the government turned to the
Court of Appeal, that two days ago decided: the method used by the government
to prevent natives' return is illegal and constituted a power abuse.
Secret custody centre. Here are the words of the judge presiding the Court: “while a natural or human-caused
disaster may result in the temporary or even definitive removal of a population
for its protection, the permanent exclusion of a whole people from their lands
for reasons not directly connected to the collective wealth cannot be legally
conducted by the government power privilege”. The British government can now appeal
to the House of Lords within a month. The Diego Garcia island is the largest of
the Chagos archipelago, being 25 kilometres long and 10 large. The B-52 bombers
used during Iraq and Afghanistan missions took off from there. It is suspected
that the island has also been used as a secret custody centre for presumed al
Qaeda terrorists.
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