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Later, when given UK passports, a large Chagossian community settled in Crawley, Sussex, after landing at nearby Gatwick.
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But it would require the involvement of all parties – Mauritius, the US, Chagossian groups, conservationists and parliament.
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One Chagossian, speaking from the floor, summed it up: We are tired and our older people are dying.
Chagossians would not damage their homeland | Sean Carey 2011
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In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. forcibly transported its 2,000 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs.
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In view of the strategic importance of their island home to the sole global superpower, simple realism surely says that the tiny Chagossian nation, numbering no more than five thousand, should give up all hope of ever reclaiming it.
A Black and Disgraceful Site Freedland, Jonathan 2009
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David Vine is an anthropologist by training, hired by lawyers for the Chagossian people to set down, for the first time, a detailed account of their fate.
A Black and Disgraceful Site Freedland, Jonathan 2009
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The whole Chagossian population was forcibly removed from our homes, our animals were killed and we were dumped, mainly in the slums of Mauritius.
Archive 2008-10-01 Deft 2008
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The whole Chagossian population was forcibly removed from our homes, our animals were killed and we were dumped, mainly in the slums of Mauritius.
No, You Can't Have Your Home Back Patrick Vessey 2008
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In the case of Diego Garcia the main goal in the native pursuit of justice, the Island of Diego Garcia itself, remains off limits to its rightful owners, the Chagossian people.
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In the island of Diego Garcia, the indigenous Chagossian people have been driven off their lands, as have the Chamorros from Guam and the Inuit from Greenland.
A New Network Forms to Close U.S. Overseas Military Bases 2007
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