Britain ignores UN deadline to cede control of Chagos Islands

[TomSea]

Britain ignores UN deadline to cede control of Chagos Islands

LONDON (DPA) - Britain rejected a claim by Mauritius over the Chagos Islands on Friday (Nov 22), six months after the United Nations said London should end its "colonial administration" of the Indian Ocean territory.

The UN General Assembly voted in May to ask Britain to hand over the islands within six months to allow Mauritius to complete "decolonisation" of its territory.

Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said the passing of the six-month deadline makes Britain an illegal colonial occupier of the islands, the BBC and other media reported.

More at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/britain-ignores-un-deadline-to-cede-control-of-chagos-islands?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=sttw&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1574427746

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Whether these are the islands or island in question, I don't know but it looks beautiful.


So, I wonder where this is going and why this might not be in the news more.  I'll bet most people haven't heard about this including me just until a short time ago.

Addendum: But the Brits let us have a base there? And that base is the somewhat known Diego Garcia?? This is all interesting and that would be our base or co-base, however it is.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-10/pressure-grows-on-britain-to-return-its-last-african-colony

[Wingnut]

In 1966, the UK leased the US the remote, 17-square-mile Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
Diego Garcia is now a key US military base in the region, and it is used as a launchpad for Air Force missions in the Middle East.
About 5,000 service members and contractors are based on Diego Garcia, which has a bowling alley, a burger bar, and stores.
The British government evicted thousands of islanders from their homes on Diego Garcia and the surrounding area to make way for the base.
The UN's top court recently ruled that the British illegally gained possession of the island in 1965, placing the future status of the base in doubt.


https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-diego-garcia-air-base-indian-ocean-2019-8

[PeteS in CA]

Looks to me like Maldives, Sri Lanka, India, and Indonesia have a better claim on the Chagos, based on geographic proximity. Somehow I suspect shutting down or milking $$ from the US base on Diego Garcia underlies this kerfuffle.

[GtHawk]

What does it matter? In less than twelve years the world as we know it is going to end and most of those islands will be under water...........the word according to Greta

[sneakypete]

Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth......

The Brits have a base on Mars?????

Wasn't that Prime Minister dood a major player in one of the Star Wars movies? The name sounds familiar.

Who knew?

[truth_seeker]

Looks to me like Maldives, Sri Lanka, India, and Indonesia have a better claim on the Chagos, based on geographic proximity. Somehow I suspect shutting down or milking $$ from the US base on Diego Garcia underlies this kerfuffle.

Who decided that it was not legally owned by Britain?

Could dozens of "nations" named pogo, toga, ponga, ponga...get together and vote to take Catalina Island, from California, to hand over to Indians?

You know there is a movement to do that with Hawaii ?

[PeteS in CA]

From knowing, in the late 80s, a couple of P-3C pilots, I knew Diego Garcia was a base used by the USN for anti-submarine patrols in the Indian Ocean, but the base is much more extensive. USAF bombers and refueling aircraft fly out of DG, and there seems to be a submarine base there, too.

[Bigun]

Britain ignores UN deadline to cede control of Chagos Islands

Good!  Damn good in fact!  Wish more nations would tell the UN to go pound sand including this one.