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In memory of Charlesia and Lisette...
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Message from CRG Chairman and Leader on the occasion of the funeral of Charlesia Alexis and the first anniversary of Lisette Talate's death
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19 October 2012: The Chagossian community celebrates its new 2012 Graduate, Pascalina Nellan, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Mauritius.
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Olivier Bancoult on the non-violent struggle of the Chagossians; Minister Boolell on Mauritius sovereignty rights at the UN
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12 June 2012: The much awaited PQ and National Assembly debates on Chagos and the Downing Street talks put the spotlight on Mauritian sovereignty rights.
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UK Foreign Secretary welcomes the commitment shown by Mauritius to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean with the signing of the piracy agreement, but again no mention of Chagos and sovereignty issue!
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From the official site of the British Prime Minister's Office: "Signing of the piracy agreement with Mauritius, Friday 8 June 2012"
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According to the Guardian, 8 June 2012:
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"Mauritius Prime Minister targets Chagos Islands sovereignty after talks with Cameron"
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"Mauritius wants to be equal partner in US-UK talks over islands including Diego Garcia"
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The Guardian, 30 May 2012: "Discussions between UK and Mauritius on sovereignty over Chagos"
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The Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2012: "Fate of Chagos Islands to be decided"
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Mauritian Ambassador to UN, 6 April 2012: "Time for UK to leave Chagos Archipelago"!
WHERE IS THE TRUTH?
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Prime Minister Ramgoolam, 31 May 2012: "The Chagossians’ struggle is our struggle!"
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“The Chagossian people and their struggle for their human rights of return, resettlement and reparation”: A presentation by Olivier Bancoult, GRG Chairman and Leader, at the Global African Diaspora Parliamentarians Summit,21-23 May 2012, Midrand, South Africa
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16 May 2012: Chagossian Community Centre renamed Marie Lisette Talate Chagossian Community Centre
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Mauritius PM on UK APPG proposal for Chagos to be on Unesco World heritage list: "This is a disguised way of going around the MPA. We are not agreeable at all."
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Post-petition press conference: review ad prospects
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TODAY 03 APRIL 2012, 11H00 M-TIME, THE PETITION TO "GET THE CHAGOSSIANS HOME" RECEIVES 25000 SIGNATURES AND MORE!
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"CHAGOS MY HOME”: HELP CHAGOSSIANS RETURN!
THE CHAGOSSIANS NEED 25000 SIGNATURES IN 30 DAYS TO GET THE ATTENTION OF THE WHITE HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, USA.
SIGN THE PETITION ON "WE THE PEOPLE" SITE AS FROM TODAY 5 MARCH 2012!
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!
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Chagos Refugees Group (CRG): "We will resist UK initiative on Chagos as a potential World Heritage site!"
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Four young Chagossian students receive their University of Cambridge ESOL Exams Certificate at the Chagos Resources and Training Centre.
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Aurelie Marie-Lisette Talate, historical figure of the Chagossian people's suffering and struggle in exile, passes away in the early hours of 04 January 2011
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Chagossians' Fund-raising rally, Sunday 03 July 2011
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MAY-JUNE 2011 UPDATES
4. OLIVIER BANCOULT REPORTS TO CHAGOSSIANS ON MAY-JUNE EVENTS
3. LAUNCH OF "EVICTION FROM CHAGOS" BOOK EDITED BY SANDRA EVERS & MARRY KOOY
2. CHAGOS REGAGNE CONFERENCE REPORT
1. FROM ILOIS TO CHAGOSSIAN WELFARE FUND: PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES SPEECH BY CHAGOS BORN MP ARIANE NAVARRE
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CHAGOS REGAINED: Racism some 40 years ago... racism now? Sylvia Edouard-Gundowry reports.
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"Chagossians would not damage their homeland". Sean Carey reports on the 'Chagos Regagné (Regained)' Conference in the Guardian.
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"Chagos Islands exiles express anger about 'military squatters' ". Sam Jones, from UK Guardian reports (2).
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"Banished Chagos Islanders insist: we are not at point of no return". Sam Jones, from UK Guardian reports (1).
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Olivier Bancoult on Chagos Regagné (Regained) Conference: “We will consent to the project only if it respects our fundamental rights”
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Chagossians celebrate new Centenarian, Mrs Marie Julie Oscar, native of Salomon, who turned 100 years old on 3 May 2011.
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ITLOS PRESS RELEASE 164, 25 MARCH 2011
THREE ARBITRATORS APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL IN THE ARBITRAL PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED BY MAURITIUS AGAINST THE UNITED KINGDOM IN RESPECT OF THE DISPUTE CONCERNING THE ‘MARINE PROTECTED AREA’ RELATED TO THE CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO
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BBC in row over misleading Chagos programme
Letter to BBC Complaints from a palette of eminent personalities denouncing statement by Ms. Rachel Jones, of Zoological Society of London, implying damage to Chagos reefs caused by plantations and native inhabitants in the past and further threats from future resettlement.
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Maria Sylvia Edouard-Gundowry wins a scholarship for her PhD proposal on education and identity among Chagossians as a displaced population.
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Aurélie Lisette Talate, prominent figure of the Chagos Refugees Group, decorated by Mauritius Government on National Day 12 March 2011.
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Joseph Stiglitz on the Mauritius Miracle and its colonial legacies: "The US occupies Diego Garcia, as a naval base without compensation, officially leasing it from the UK, which not only retained the Chagos Islands in violation of the UN and international law, but also expelled its citizens and refuses to allow them to return.
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Sylvia Edouard-Gundowry: "Chagossians in the UK: On the margins of British society. It looks like they are destined to remain there."
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BREAKING NEWS
Olivier Bancoult attends 16th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, 30-31 January 2011, as part of the Mauritius delegation led by PM Ramgoolam.
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BBC News Africa 22 December 2010: "Mauritius has launched a legal action against the UK to contest its creation of a Marine Protection Area around its Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean."
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"Mauritius sues UK for control of Chagos islands: the first step in a process that could end UK control over the territory."
guardian.uk.co 21December 2010
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Mauritius contests the legality of UK Chagos MPA before the UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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Olivier Bancoult's mother Rita, 85, has a message for Britain:
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
www.newsnow.mu, 14 December 2010
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John Pilger expresses support for Wikileaks and solidarity with Assange.
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"I was duped by FCO over Chagos Islands" says Ben Fogle, Patron of UK Chagos Support Association
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"WikiLeaks, a forgotten people, and the record-breaking marine reserve"
Sean Carey:The "marine protected area" used as a means to preserve the Chagos Archipelago as a military base - to the cost of its deported inhabitants.
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Olivier Bancoult on WikiLeaks' Chagos revelations:
"I'm not surprised. Britain set up the MPA to stop Chagossians from going home."
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Roch Evenor (UK Chagos Support Association):
"WikiLeaks and Chagos: The hypocrisy and duplicity of the Foreign Office officials is both appalling and saddening."
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"Chagossians, Orphans of the World": a poignant book by photographer and artist Jameel Peerally.
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16th meeting of the Chagos Islands APPG: Coordinator's Summary for public circulation.
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Mark Seddon on "Britain's Shameful Human Rights Record", with regard to the Chagossians "whose human rights have been serially abused by successive governments for over forty years."
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May-November 2010:
Chronicle of a crime foretold: MPA, Human Rights and the struggle of the Chagossian people.
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Henry Bellingham (04 Nov 2010): "...the decision not to change the fundamental policy on resettlement, compensation and on the Marine Protected Area will be a disappointing one for the Chagossians and their supporters."
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Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam unveils plaque commemorating 03 November as Day of Deportation of Chagossians.
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BREAKING NEWS:
MAURITIUS DECLARES 3rd NOVEMBER “ A SPECIAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION OF THE DEPORTATION OF THE CHAGOS COMMUNITY”.
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TEN YEARS AFTER THE HISTORIC JUDGEMENT OF 3 NOVEMBER 2000, DAVID SNOXELL RECALLS AND REFLECTS ON THE "JUST AND FAIR JUDGEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME A LANDMARK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SOONER OR LATER IT WILL BE HONOURED."
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Bancoult's meting with Bellingham
From NewStatesman, 22-10-2010:
- Both sides sensitive on Human Rights case
- Maybe need for political solution
- Bellingham "friendly, more open than predecessors"
- No statement issued
- Next meeting could be 3rd week of November
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Charles Tannock, Member of the European Parliament, and Marcus Booth, chairman of 'Conservative City Future' make a strong plea in favour of Chagossians' right of return, on ConservativeHome's Platform.
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Olivier Bancoult, leader and chairman of the chagos Refugees Group, on his way to crucial meeting with FCO Minister Bellingham on 21 October 2010.
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Lalit International Conference on Closure of Diego Garcia military base, end of illegal UK-USA occupation of Chagos and Right of Return and full reparation for Chagossians, 30-10 to 2-11-10
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"It's difficult to hold out hope for a change in policy",
says the new British High Commissioner to Mauritius, on the Chagossian issue.
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"Chagos people press to return to their island home", writes Lorraine Mallinder in Global Post, 27 September 2010.
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Coma Story, a novel by Manoj Stephen Thompson: a story of
betrayal, suffering, and the non-violent struggle of the Chagos Islanders.
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David Snoxell, Coordinator of Chagos Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group and Peter Bottomley, MP, comment on Britain's moral standing on Human Rights and the treatment of the Chagossians' fundamental rights.
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OBITUARY
David Snoxell, Co-ordinator of the Chagos All-Party Parliamentary Group on Lord Bingham's "last and searing minority opinion in the case of the Chagos Islanders" delivered by the Law Lords in October 2008.
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OBITUARY
CRG AND THE CHAGOSSIAN PEOPLE MOURN THE DEMISE OF LORD BINGHAM. OLIVIER BANCOULT: "A GREAT LOSS FOR THE CHAGOS CAUSE"
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UK Coalion Government perfidiously puts the clock back by going back on what it promised during the general elections campaign on Chagossians' Right of Return and Reparation, in letter from FCO to CRG Leader Olivier Bancoult.
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Baroness Janet Whitaker: Let the Chagossians return to their birthplace and help maintain the archipelago's conservation area. (Guardian 03 September 2010)
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Olivier Bancoult, CRG Chairman: The decision to proclaim the Chagos Archipelago an MPA effectively bars the Chagossian people from returning to their homes to earn a living. (Guardian, 29 August 2010)
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UK GOVERNMENT MINISTERS COME OUT AGAINST RESETTLEMENT OF INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDERS.
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Sean Carey in The New Statesman: "Chagos: coalition ditches promise to reverse policy" (27 August 2010)
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CRG Leader's appeal to EU-ACP regional meeting in Seychelles, 14-15 July 2010.
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MAURITIUS ENVIRONMENT PLATFORM PRESS RELEASE ON CHAGOS AND UK MPA PROJECT: "Yes to a Marine Protected Area, but not without the Chagossians."
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Chagos islanders must be allowed home. Hague must use the Mauritian prime minister's visit to negotiate an end to the shameful eviction of the Chagos islanders (read more)
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Will London soften its position on the Chagos?
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The new British government in favour of a quick solution to the Chagos problem.
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Mauritius Foreign Affairs Minister at UN Assembly: "Mauritius does not recognize Chagos MPA status as decreed by UK in April 2010."
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Chagos Refugees Group leaders amazed by speed of FCO's opposition to seabed claim by Maldives and contrast it with UK refusal to Chagossians' return to their native islands.
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" Vince Cable should apologise for over Chagos letter"!
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A DELEGATION OF THE CHAGOS REFUGEES GROUP LED BY OLIVIER BANCOULT MEETS THE NEW BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER TO MAURITIUS, MR. NICK LEAKE.
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CABLE ON CHAGOS AND CHAGOSSIANS: an update, posted in New Statesman 14 Sept 2010:
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"Administrative error" on the part of Dr Cable's constituency office;
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David Snoxell: "Chagossian hopes have been raised and dashed several times over the last decade -- but never before in a single afternoon."
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Olivier Bancoult, CRG chairman and leader: "I want an answer from Mr Bellingham and Mr Hague."
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UK Business Secretary Vincent Cable's letter reproduced in New Statesman, 13 September 2010 15:37: Coalition Government are dropping case in European Court of Human Rights; Steps already taken to ensure return of Chagossians to their homeland.
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TRIBUTE TO LORD BINGHAM
"Lord Bingham of Cornhill and the Chagos Islanders", by Sean Carey in NewStatesman 12 sept 2010.
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Mauritius PM at the 15th African Union Summit Meeting, Kampala:
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Mauritian Government Programme 2010-2015:
111. Government will intensify its action to defend the right to effectively exercise sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and will explore all options available to ensure its early return to Mauritius and the resettlement of the archipelago.
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Mauritius, France sign deal on Indian Ocean island Tromelin
Mauritian Foreign Minister Boolell:
"This signing is a tribute to the brotherly nature of the ties uniting France and Mauritius, as well as a shared desire to develop Tromelin,"
The agreement should "serve as an example for Britain".
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The Chagos Marine Park would be reviewed" says UK Foreign Secretary to Mauritius Prime Minister, on 3 June 2010.
Le projet britannique visant à convertir en un parc marin les eaux de l’archipel de Diego Garcia sera matière à révision. C’est ce qu’a promis le nouveau Foreign Secretary britannique, William Hague, au Premier ministre Navin Ramgoolam.
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"New British Government, new Parliament – a new policy on Chagos? There are high expectations that they will reverse the policy of no return."
New British Government, new Parliament – a new policy on Chagos?
We have a new Parliament, 227 new MPs and a Coalition Government which is espousing a new consensual way of politics that takes account of a broad spectrum of views. But will this approach also be applied to the abysmal handling of Chagos issues over the last decade?
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Death of Chagos historical figure Marie Elphezia Véronique on 1st June 2010 at the age of 94; and of Felicy Elysée on 27 May 2010 at the age of 103.
A native of Diego Garcia, she was among the first Chagossians who were forcibly removed from their homeland in the late 1960s. Marie Elphezia Veronique was at the forefront of the early Ilois struggle, together with Charlesia, Lisette Talate and others, when the first protest movements flared up in the streets of Port Louis
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