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TWO British women born in the Chagos Islands are set to bring legal action against the government, claiming it has unlawfully failed to give Chagossians a say in their homeland’s future.
Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, both born on Diego Garcia, are challenging the Foreign Office over its proposed agreement to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
The agreement includes leasing back the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia at British taxpayers’ expense.
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
Beatrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse have submitted a UN complaint against Labour’s deal with Mauritius, highlighting how exclusion from ancestral lands is denying their right of return and justice for historical abuses, reports ELIZABETH MISTRY