Dirty world 😔 it’s really disgusting that we are taught about how this is all wrong in history lessons and that we learned from our misdeeds yet it’s still going on
@@acceleratedsloth Was India / South Africa (amongst many many countries) inhabited by the Europeans? Is that why they were colonised? How far do you want to go back in history? If we go by your logic, the first inhabitants on earth were black 🤷🏻♀️. The first inhabitant of Great Britian according to scientific facts was black...just look up the ' Cheddar Man'.
@@samna789 there were no indigenous humans in the chagos archipelago. The population were african slaves, they were left to freedom since the late 1700s. They deserve to live there for sure.
@@yannickm6292are you politically constipated? Because anyone who had a working understanding of politics would understand that in MOST CASES, the government is not “us”
There were no people ever living on the islands until the French put slaves on there in the 18th century. Great Britain then gained the islands after defeating Napoleon.
@@acceleratedsloth In terms of History, if one does the math, people had been living on the Chagos islands (about 60 islands) for approximately 200 years before they were forcibly all moved to Mauritius in 1967 and the islands were taken over to build a British and American military base. The first settlements started between 1770 and 1793, by various companies that received permits from France. We can deduce that the locals were workers who decided to remain there. NO MATTER their origins, they lived there for around 200 years before... Legally speaking, it does not matter if their origin was African, European, etc. // As for Mauritians, they are considered African and their language is a mix of African, French, etc. Historians are not certain who first settled on Mauritius: it is believed it may have been the famous Phoenician merchants.
I really want to visit my grandma is from here but she had to leave to Mauritius when she was only 3 years old it’s not fair at all that they took her home!!!!!!
You know if UK return the island, it’s ownership will pass to the Mauritius government. The ‘Chagossians’ have no rights to any of it, they were temporary workers.
@@samanth. unfortunately the natives are heavily outnumbered. Even if African Americans, Pacific Islanders in the US, hispanics and every other ethnic minority joined forces with Native Americans they’d still be at a disadvantage
I read about the Chagossians in John Pilgers book - Freedom Next Time - it makes me sick to my stomach. It’s 2022 how can this still not be resolved . The pain caused by white colonialists overwhelms me.
Unnecessary to drag skin color into this. Neither was that stuff colonialism; it was taken for strategic military reasons. I'm not justifying it, but we better don't condemn stuff for the wrong reasons.
I was deeply saddened to read the story of the Chagosians who were forcibly removed from the archipelago. Their plight resulting from British betrayal of its own citizens was highlighted in John Pilger's "Stealing a nation".
India supports freedom of Chagos Island from British occupation. It is the Mauritiuan territory and British must remove their illegal occupation. Keep it up guys ☺️.
@@greenplanet7767 India hasn't occupied Kashmir. Kashmir Became a part of Indian Union in Oct. 1947 with its own will. And one thing You must make it sure that Kashmir is, was and will always be an inalienable part of Indian Union.
For the record when the Portuguese discovered the Island there was zero human activity there. The first humans living there were Portuguese, French and British, later they imported workers from Africa.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I KEEP SAYING I TRUST THE GUARDIAN THE GUARDIAN ALWAYS BRINGS TO LIGHT WHAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT. THANKS, GUARDIAN. NOT ME, YOU ARE MY GUARDIAN YOU GUIDE ME. THANKS GUARDIAN, PLEASURE BEING THIS.
Watch the testimonies of the Chagos natives and how they were banished from their own land. They expressed their utmost pain, long night cries and the lost of their entire life. Thank you to the Guardian for bringing this to the world and to all those who claim they ‘know’ the history, please get lost. We don’t need you to help our Chagos brothers and sisters. Chagos belong to its people.
@@gojimovedchannel1478 Do they? You pandering to the far right wing rhetoric I see. Brutal Uk occupation was forced on the Chagos through no choice of their own. That's no proof they ever wanted to be British.
@cheeky chops 1 Yes it's a disgrace, very despicable what has gone on in Chagos and many other UK occupied territory in conjunction with the US for strategic military purposes and other varioua purposes. The Chagos first ministera or governors are/were brutal right wing dictators.
0:02 - 🙏🙇 This sort of respect to one's Motherland is very reminiscent of our Bharatiya (Indian) culture to show respect. Loved it and the meaning is very deep for the gesture. Best wishes to Chagos islanders for getting back to their roots and claiming the archipelago from colonials.
Let's be honest, there is not going to be a happy homecoming. Even if the British permit the community to return very few will, especially those living in the UK. The option for the islands is either to remain a military base for the UK/US, get handed to Mauritius who will lease it out as a military base to the US or India or get handed to Mauritius who will turn it into a playground for the world's billionaires. Potentially in the last scenario the ejected inhabitants could get work serving cocktails and cleaning up after the world's elite.
The Downfall of Olivier was to miss represent the chagos island by a Maritian Flag. This was a very misleading move that eventually was undone by the Chagossian in the UK
Don't worry, the US will give the UK permission to give the islands back to their rightful owners when the replacement for the Diego Garcia US military base is found in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in Australian territory (otherwise known as the US's extra territory).
You cannot speak of the British and American doings on islands, when Australia has MULTIPLE islands hundreds of miles from Australia under Australian control, that would make you a hypocrite
@@danielupcott5439 self determination. Besides British Indian ocean territory no other British territories want independence. In fact some people who lived in what is now British Indian ocean territory actually want to be British and have a British passport due to how they were treated on the island they were moved to.
United Kingdom sucks, and everytime they do decolonizing, it sucks. Look at what happened in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sabah, and Indian subcontinent, might as well in the Levant region in the Middle East.
Respect the islanders for seeing the difference between the UK government and British people. Ordinary Brits would have given the islanders back their homes.
This land belongs to chagossians as much as Ukraine 🇺🇦 belongs to Ukrainians. Same issue two different medias cover. Quite Impressed the guardian revealed stuff like this 👏
I believe the British government is still claiming their sovereignty over the chagos, though the world is voicing quite clearly, along with International law Courts, that sovereignty over the Chagos belongs n has always been Mauritians. The British hypocrisy is blatant here, when it comes to respect, dignity, human n civil rights of every human beings. The British government isn't necessarily the voice of its citizens. It has to be noted here, tht recently a British MP has claimed in Parliament, tht his chagossians constituents have voiced against the expedition and the Mauritian flag planted on the island. British media hasn't verified so far as it appears, the veracity of his claim. The Chagos is still a brushed under the carpet issue fr British media n fr both Conservative and Labour MP's. The British media appears very quiet about the issue since its illegal, controversial take over by the British government, apparently fr communication purposes n turned into a military base. In saying tht, I feel the government of Mauritius should have had a very transparent understanding with all concerned about the real intention of the expedition n its purposes. The expedition should have being led by senior government officials, along with the residents of Chagos, n World media, to reclaim, Mauritius sovereignty, or making known to whoever, officially that Chagos has along been Mauritian.
These guys' DNA points to Bantu people of southern Africa, they were just moved there by the British as indentured servants. The islands are closer to the Maldives than to any other point in Africa.
As a Maldivian historically we have references to visiting the islands from hundreds of years ago and have our own given name to the island as one of ours and a sultan having some sort of territorial authority over there before inhabitation it wasn’t used as a place of habitation but usually a point that people crossed over when fishing and such I’m not sure at what point did we lose the territory but it’s a part of our ancient history
However the fact that there were later inhabitants and now generations have passed and they see it as their forefathers land is valid in my opinion since they have built their own culture and society there and it is therefore their home and they don’t belong nowhere else so it is their right now to be free of any other extra authorities belonging to neither Mauritius or maldives especially after all they have gone through being stripped of humanity because of the British and the US
A abhorrent disgusting behaviour of the - Empire/Colonialist, which is a violation of - the living man, and living woman, within Common Law & Sacred Law.
@@gojimovedchannel1478 Nice question. Then why it was occupied by you at the first place. If you haven't occupied, they might have been there to establish their own government and dealt with world recognition. Also, Wherever the imperialistic colonization happenend, the nativ wealth, education, culture has been ripped off. So it is natural for anyone to ask for repatriation.
@@bonxrmnnpm5505 The Chagos Archipelago was unpopulated and claimed by no one when the European's discovered it. Nothing wrong with colonisation of uninhabited places.
These "open loops" of karma completion will continue as long as humans have the moxie to stand up against the few that want us all as slaves. WE WILL TRIUMPH!
@@tucolalo8251 without Africa you wouldn’t have a phone. Europe doesn’t have any natural resources & that’s why they exploit, colonise and try to take control of Africa. But continue being ignorant to the truth
It was uninhabited until the British got there - previously claimed by Portugal and France. They are the descendents of indentured servants moved there by their British. Nobody talks about this, because it'll weaken their claim. It was never an independent state or held by anyone but the British crown, briefly giving to the Mauritian crown colony before the US wanted it for a military base.
It was part of british colony before independence.. As mauritius got independence they secretly capture diego garcia start forcing people to move and killing their pet dogs, stop food and water supply.. Do want to know more let me know..
I'm not going to argue with anyone, so spare your breath. I'm just posting this to inform passers-by of the facts about the Chagossians and their homeland. Yes, the islands were effectively uninhabited when the Portuguese, French and later the Brits came; and it is also true that Chagossians were descended from indentured servants of African descent. However, your comment neglects the fact that in 1967, the Brits literally removed every single Chagossian from the islands which they inhabit, under explicit threat of violence and starvation. The expulsed Chagossians were also prohibited from ever returning to the islands. I should add that international courts have recognized that the forcible expulsion of the Chagossians was completely illegal, and that the Brits have absolutely no legal sovereignty on the islands. As such, what the US and the Brits did, and are doing to the Chagossians, is criminal, unjust, unlawful, and completely indefensible. If you're willing to defend it, I implore you to consider if you would voice support for the complete purge of an entire people from their natove homeland, only to populate it with soldiers, and pollute it with toxic chemicals. Think about it, because that was what precisely happened here.
Why have you completely avoided the history of the islands? The islands were uninhabited before the arrival of Europeans. It was the Europeans who first lived there. It is not true that the Mauritians lived there before Europeans.
@@samanth. its already happend with Indians and Africans moving in Droves. France has already awoken and 40% supports the white nationalists so its a matter of time before it spreads to the UK and Germany then Europe can Unite and build a fortress against the Brown world.
PLEASE BUILD A HAWAII BAHAMAS TYPE RESORT HERE SO WE CAN ALL VISIT THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE !!!!! WE ALL WANT TO SEE THOSE AMAZING WATERS ABD BEACHES !!!!!
The last thing this beautiful place needs in an international resort, with all its destruction of nature, garbage, reef destruction, and marginalization of local people. Are you insane?
@@dropoutandretireearly1781 Tell that to the Hawaiians in Lahaina. Tell that tho the Bahamians in Nassau. They will laugh at you and tell you you are nuts.
Love it... just love it... I married a pommie... Ugh... they just want to take over and dominate... worst mistake of my life... Soo abusive. My thoughts and prayers with you peeps from you neighbour in South Africa 🇿🇦 ❣🥰
They were allowed . You mean right . These people were born on these islands and the Brits pretend these islands British . Are the english allow to have a British passport. RIDICULOUS
Perhaps the protesters should give some thoought as to why the US and Uk decided establish a military base World peace and stabiity often require difficult and unpopular decisions
There should not be occupstion of a country thst's not the UK's for any purposes whatsoever. Chagos wholly belongs to the Chagos people, none of it ever belonged to the UK government whatsoever. Same with other territories the UK government still occupies that the UN have decalared totally illegal.
😂😂😂,if you guys don’t respect the international law,that you created,what is the point these international law and international court decisions?This means one day when western hegemony will end,what are you going to do if Asian country start colonizing European countries such China.
