Chagos for Chagossians

[Tessa Clarke @TessaClarkeLive]

THE CHAGOS FILES:

The Government of the Chagos Islands have a new website and crowdfunding page:
https://t.co/SAljrIIRej

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Kennedy on the U.S. Senate floor: Great Stupidity - The Chagos Islands deal gives access to China … https://t.co/3zNjgJWmZw #Chagos 🇮🇴

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Support British Chagossians resettlement. Urgent aid needed for safe, dignified return to the Chagos Islands. Led by First Minister Misley Mandarin & Michel (72), born on Île de Coin. Donate for water & shelter. SAVE CHAGOS 🇮🇴
https://t.co/nhknUW7hRD

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Human Rights Watch calls for Chagossians to be allowed to go home after 50 years of exile. It calls for an immediate end to the return ban & for support to rebuild the islands so they can live and work in dignity across the Chagos Islands, as they once did in the life they lost🇮🇴

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

The UN has called for a suspension of the Chagos deal, warning it does not protect the rights of the Chagossian people. CERD says they were excluded from talks & not offered resettlement, locking in historic injustices. After 50 years of exile, being ignored again is unbearable🇮🇴

[Kel Mansfield @tedkel]

The long-term repercussions of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's actions over the last couple of days will be that the US will never trust the UK again.

The security and intelligence alliance between the US and the UK was already terribly damaged.

But denying the use of Diego Garcia, which allows planes to fly direct to Iran without entering another country's airspace, and to also inform Mauritius of America's operational plans beforehand, has taken the relationship to the woodshed.

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

The UK didn’t give permission for US planes to use Diego Garcia because they were advised by Labour Government lawyers to ask permission from, and defer to, Mauritius ‘pursuant to the Chagos Treaty’ and it was refused.

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Labour knew all this, and more, but elected to mislead Parliament with a toxic cocktail of fake and confected ‘legal advice’, topped up with carefully-scripted lies about what was happening on the ground. The only urgency was that Mauritius and its lawyers wanted a vast payout.

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Mauritius refused US launch from Chagos: 
UK Civil Servants have been ordered to ‘work on the premise that the Chagos Treaty is already law’. That’s why they informed Mauritius - A brutal introduction to the future of NSF Diego Garcia if the US allows it to go ahead #stopchagos

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

It's BEYOND farcical:

The 2025 Chagos deal requires the UK to "expeditiously inform" Mauritius of any armed attack on a third state (such as Iran) from the base.

Mauritius is a strong ally of China who are in turn a strong ally of Iran.

So Starmer is just effectively doing China's bidding rather than Mauritius's.

If one were to just assume Starmer is hypothetically acting as a Chinese asset, then all of his actions become completely coherent.

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Mauritius refused US launch from Chagos:

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

BREAKING - Labour’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper doesn’t deny that the UK blocked the US from launching an attack on Iran’s IRGC from Diego Garcia amid rumours that Mauritius was asked for approval and refused it (via @GuidoFawkes @RealDonaldTrump) https://t.co/XpsjIYSSDu

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Chagossians are a territorially distinct and culturally unique people whose identity is tied to the Chagos Islands. Under UNDRIP they have rights to their land, to self determination, to redress & to prior & informed consent. Their future should never be decided without them 🇮🇴

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Greenland showed the world what becomes possible when an indigenous people are recognised & trusted to shape their own future. The Kalaallit Inuit found dignity, home rule, & a path to self‑determination. The Chagossians deserve the same chance to stand on their own land again🇮🇴

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

Often lost in the argument about the future of the Chagos Islands are the Chagossians themselves. I personally believe that they have been treated despicably.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has heavily criticised the UK-Mauritius Agreement on human rights grounds.  

The UN Committee called for a suspension of the treaty ratification because the Treaty fails to guarantee a right of return by the Chagossians.  I personally agree with the UN Committee.

On human rights grounds alone we should be listening to the Chagossians – ensuring their right to return to their ancestral lands, insisting on the principle of self-determination.

I recently chaired a session of Parliament’s @HumanRightsCtte at which we heard evidence - and differing views - on the long standing violations of the human rights of Chagossians.

Read here: https://t.co/XzxZoZ9dok

The evidence speaks for itself and, like our Committee, we are all free to come to our own conclusions. But I for one believe that we Chagossians deserve to be listened to.

[Politics Aired @PoliticsAired]

🇮🇴🇮🇴🇮🇴 STOP THE CHAGOS DEAL 🇮🇴🇮🇴🇮🇴

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@DanielJHannan @EssexPR @MPIainDS @KemiBadenoch @RupertLowe10 @DanielJHannan @CatharineHoey @Fox_Claire @BiotCitize56752 @ChagosUK @GreatBritishPAC @GBNEWS @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @timothy_stanley @CamillaTominey

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[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

For more than 50 years the Chagossians have lived in exile, far from the Chagos islands that once held their families and memories. They are still fighting to return, still holding on to hope. Resettlement offers dignity and a path home. Please support🇮🇴:
https://t.co/nhknUW7hRD

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

The pause in plans for the Chagos Islands brings a moment of hope for the Chagossians. But the threat to their homeland remains. After more than 50 years of exile, no decision about their islands should ever be made without them. Their voices must finally matter. 🇮🇴

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

US President Donal Trump has the right to veto the Chagos deal. 🇮🇴🇮🇴🇮🇴
Please help: https://t.co/IzIGFpgz6l

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

Two petitions need your voice. One asks MPs to protect Chagossians' rights. The other asks Parliament to hear their heart breaking story. Together they lift a people who have suffered exile for over 50 years. Please sign both🇮🇴
https://t.co/ye5DuqEaC4
https://t.co/3FEVDxKbF1

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

For Chagossians, the pain never stopped. Forced from their homeland in the 1960s and still living with the fear of being pushed away again. Fifty years of exile, fifty years of longing. A people still reaching for home.
Please help:
https://t.co/ye5DuqEaC4 🇮🇴

[Chagos for Chagossians @ForChagossians]

For more than 50 years the Chagossians have lived with a wound that never healed, torn from the islands that once held their lives & families. Their right to remain British and to return is recognised in law but still unrealised up to now. Please help: https://t.co/ye5DuqEIrC 🇮🇴