Wikileaks confirms that Chagos Marine Reserve is just a colonialist ploy

In March this year, I wrote about how the proposal to create a marine reserve in Chagos, an archipelago in Mauritius, was a ploy to greenwash the Diego Garcia US military base and the forced removal of Chagossians from their homes (link). Now, a revelation from the US embassies cables leaked by Wikileaks shows what [...]

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Chagos nature reserve: colonialism greenwashed

In the 1960s, the British empire in Asia gave way to a plethora of independent countries. But there was an exception: in the Chagos archipelago, locals were expelled from their homes to allow for the construction of a US military base. Even after five decades of struggle in the streets and courts, Chagossians have never [...]

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