Chagos Archipelago
US-Anglo Capitalist Theft
& Human Rights Abuse
for Illegal Capitalist US Military Base
https://www.rt.com/uk/349042-chagos-islanders-supreme-court/
Chagos islanders forcibly evicted by UK told they STILL can’t go home
Published time: 30 Jun, 2016 16:24
Chagos islanders forcibly removed from their homes by the British government to make way for a US military base have been told they are still barred from returning in a UK Supreme Court ruling.
Britain’s highest court said the islanders could not go back to their homeland because life on the archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean is too precarious, despite the fact over 4,000 US and UK military personnel live on the island Diego Garcia.
Since their forced eviction in the 1960s and 1970s, the islanders have campaigned for the right to return to their homes, supported by politicians such as Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Supreme Court ruling is the latest in a protracted legal battle against the UK government.
In 2000, the High Court ruled the Chagos islanders could return to all islands except Diego Garcia, the site of a large US military base. This was overturned in 2008 by a 3/2 majority.
Thursday’s ruling by the same majority is the latest setback in the islanders’ struggle for justice, however they have not been deterred by the decision.
It is impossible to accept that other people can live and work on our birthplace while we are not able to,” said Chagos Refugee Group leader Louis Olivier Bancoult.
“We will not give up. Chagossians will be on Chagos very soon.
“It’s time for the UK government to put an end to all our suffering. We have not lost all the battle. It’s not the end of the road. Our case is a just case. We are asking for our dignity as people and fundamental rights as human beings.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/349042-chagos-islanders-supreme-court/
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SUMMARY
[info from wikipedia unless otherwise marked]
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Chagos Archipelago
aka Chagos Islands, Oil Islands
over 60 tropical islands
Indian Ocean, 500 km south of Maldives
British Indian Ocean Territory
home to Chagossians over 150 years
UK evicted them 1967 - 1973
to let USA build MILITARY BASE on Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia only inhabited by only military & civilian US personnel
- since 1971
Sovereignty of Chagos Archipelago disputed
b/w Mauritius & UK
UK excised Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory 1965
before Mauritius gained 'independence' in 1968
ARABS
Arabs first to visit Mauritius
Mauritius named: Dina Arobi in Middle Ages by Arab sailors
PORTUGUESE
1507, Portuguese sailors visit
DUTCH
Dutch established colony in Mauritius 1638
Mauritius home of the dodo & other bird species
dodo terrestrial, flightless, likely ground nesting
no natural mammalian predators
live specimens sent to Europe & east
earliest European depiction in royal menagerie of Emperor Rudolph II, Prague
c. 1610 paintings
dodo fearless of humans
fearlessness & inability to fly = easy prey to sailors
some mass killings for ships' provisions
in 1600s human population in Mauritius never exceeded 50 persons
but introduced: dogs, pigs, cats, rats & macaques
which plundered dodo nests & competed for food resources
meanwhile, humans destroyed forest habitat of dodos
impact of pigs & macaques particularly severe
last dodo sighting 1662, shipwrecked Dutch mariner
dodo extinction reported 1600s but not recognised to 1800s
partly due to religious reasons: did not believe extinction possible
partly b/c scientists doubted dodo existence (believed it was myth)
first human-induced extinction reference in 1833 mag.
Mauritius was named after Dutch prince
prince Maurice van Nassau
Dutch East India Company administration
1638 Dutch East India Company INTRODUCED SLAVERY
Mauritius source of slave labour under DEIC = Batavia
Batavia = modern Jakarta, Indonesia
Batavia became Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia post WWII
Batavia, source of: nutmeg, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon
+ non indigenous: coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco, rubber, sugar & opium
Dutch East Indies colonial city of Batavia held 320 years
fell to Japanese occupation WWII
renamed: Jakarta under Japanese occupation
Dutch renamed: Batavia / to Indonesia independence 1949
Dutch had made attempts to develop slave trade in Indian Ocean
Dutch East India Company maintained control to 1710
DEIC left due to PIRACY & wars with FRANCE & BRITAIN
Dutch navigator Abel Tasman set out from Mauritius
to discover western part of Australia
1710 - Mauritius, Dutch abandoned colony
FRENCH
1715 - Mauritius became French colony (Isle de France)
important base on Europe to East trade routes
Mauritius under French East India Company admin.
French continue slave labour
under French admin, slaves imported from: Africa & Madagascar
involved in power struggle b/w French & British
BRITISH
1810 - French surrender / terms with British
name reverted to Mauritius on British rule
British continued slavery & held political prisoners in Mauritius
1835, slavery abolished
1834 - 1921: over 500,000 indentured labourers under British
brought in for work on:
- sugar plantations
- factories
- transport
- construction
plus: 8,740 Indian soldiers brought to Mauritius
Aapravasi Ghat, Port Louis, major reception centre for slaves & semi-slaves / more
ie indentured servants / labourers
indentured servitude = form of people trafficking & labour exploitation
mass immigration to 'New World', working for master for fixed term of years
to pay off debt of migration, at which point servants freed to work for self
INDENTURED SERVITUDE
widely used in BRITISH COLONIES, NORTH AMERICA & ELSEWHERE
1600 - 1700
HALF THE WHITE IMMIGRANTS
TO AMERICA COLONIES INDENTURED SERVANTS
late 1600s to early 1700s, children from England and France
= kidnapped and sold into indentured labour in Caribbean
* term of '5 years' meant nothing: contracts bought & sold
* some never obtained freedom
1939 - WWII - Mauritians volunteer to serve British, Africa & Near East
versus Germans & Italians
German subs sunk British ships 1943 in Port Louis
but Mauritius itself was never threatened
1948 - first general elections (Labour win)
1953 - Labour, demand for universal suffrage (bettering Labour position)
1955 to 1957, constitutional conferences held London
1959 - first universal adult suffrage
1959 - Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change Speech
best option for UK: 'independence' of colonies
since late 1950s, 'independence' of UK colonies paved
1961 - Constitutional Review Conference, London
1963 - elections
candidates chosen on ETHNIC & CASTE considerations
social probs, overpopulation & monoculture of sugar cane (ie single crop cult.)
= intense campaign to HALT POPULATION EXPLOSION / decade decline pop. growth
= *does not explain HOW decline pop. (ie emigration?)
1965 - Lancaster Conference - UK wants to relieve itself of Mauritius colony
1965 - UK excised Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
to form BRITISH INDIAN OCIAN TERRITORY (BIOT)
1968 - Mauritius became 'independent' state
1968 - new constitution + Mauritius 'independence' proclaimed
republic within:
Commonwealth of Nations
Queen Elizabeth II - head of state
UN tribunal ruled: UK acted illegally
on creating marine protected area around Chagos
without consent of Mauritius
depriving Mauritius of fishing rights
2009-2011, Truth & Justice Commission (Mauritius)
explores impact of slavery & indentured servitude in Mauritius
the 'official apology' inquiry
involves museum + 'crimes against humanity' ideology
intro of Creole in schools
land grants
critics accuse govt. commission of being: 'eyewash'
Mauritius penal system: French civil law + British common law
judiciary alleged to be independent
The Heritage Foundation vouches for the legal system ...lol
Maldives must be a puppet state, then
The Heritage Foundation
THF think tank set up 1973
by US right-wing/conservatives
shilling for free trade, limiting govt services & strong military for capitalist wars
considerable influence in Washington DC, esp. Ronald Reagan era
set-up funding from Coors Beer empire
+ Richard Mellon Scaife, Mellon industrial & banking wealth
funding from orgs. w/ connections to Koch brothers
NOTE:
The Heritage Foundation strong ties with
1. London Institute of Economic Affairs
2. Mont Pelerin Society
Mont Pelerin Society
international org comprised of:
- economists
- philosophers
- historians
- intellectuals
- business leaders
- & others
portrayed as committed to personal & political freedom
ADVOCATES OF FREE MARKET & 'OPEN SOCIETY'
advocates classical liberal ideas / ie neoliberal ideas
'Open Society'
coined by Henri Bergson 1932
Henri Bergson, French citizen
father Polish Jew (original name: Berekson)
great-grandmother patroness of Polish Jewry, Hasidic movement
mother, of English-Irish Jewish background
famous Jewish entrepreneurial family in Poland
great-great-grandfather, prominent banker
married cousin of Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust best man @ wedding
sister = Mina Berson
aka Moina Mathers
sister married British occultist: Samuel Liddel MacGregor Mathers
founder of HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN
Henri Bergson = French professor & author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson
The Heritage Foundation
Founders:
- American religious cuck
- German-American Catholic described cuck
- brewing heir (Coors Brewing Co):
- Coors Brewing Co
- anti trade union
- required new employees to take lie detector tests
Heritage Foundation d*ckheads:
formulated many of Reagan's campaign ideas
- pro US (capitalist) military & other
- to support anti-communist resistance movements worldwide
- pushed for this strategy, known as REAGAN DOCTRINE
- in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua and other
The Heritage Foundation, worked closely with anti-communist movements
- eg. Nicaraguan contras
- eg. Jonas Savimbi's Unita movement (Angola)
- purpose: military, economic + political pressure on Soviet-aligned nations
Heritage Foundation extremely influential USG,
incl CIA, Defence Intel Agency & National Security Council & other govt agencies
Thanks to these c*ckheads, US-Anglo capitalism has:
won both covert and overt 'wars of liberation' against Soviet-aligned states
COMMENT: THEREFORE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WORLDWIDE ASCENDENCY OF JIHADISTS
critics also note: undue bloodshed third world & damaged US-Soviet relations
Heritage instrumental role in portraying Russia as 'evil empire' .. LMAO
while Heritage were physically present providing military & political support
to power-grabbers & oppressors that would serve US capitalist interests
Think Tanks Abound With Former Spies
ex-CIA analyst officials at think tanks
http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2012/11/think-tanks-abound-with-former-spies.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Justice_Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia,_Dutch_East_Indies
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation |
COMMENT
Think I might be like the British government ... I selectively take 'human rights' into consideration, depending who is involved and what is at stake.
I'm all for human rights in this instance: you can't remove people from a territory, claim it as yours and put a military base on it, like the US-Anglo capitalist empire has done. Well, you can if you're the British Empire and, later, the US-Anglo Capitalist Empire, and your courts let you get away with it.
I don't buy any of the 'human rights' ideology (because might is right & one's own interests are paramount, and that is all that there ideally is). But as the 'human rights' ideology is so fondly used by the post-WWII capitalist Empire to attain its own agenda (particularly, in implementing the invasion of European societies program they have maintained for decades, to the detriment of the people that comprise their nations), if this false god can also be used to challenge the US-Anglo Evil Hypocritical Empire, why not? LOL ... I don't care if anyone thinks I'm horrible. That's what I see.
These are the hypocrites who claimed the Third Reich Germans and the Soviet Russians were 'evil' threats to the world, and look at just some of what they have done historically and what they now do, for the sake of the aims and profits of their wealthy classes, while they DESTROY the ancestral homelands of their own people: the helpless, betrayed by unions and leftist political parties, enslaved, without organisation & politically policed, working classes.
Look how clever the US-Anglo Evil Empire is and how they plan well in advance: they stripped Maldives of the territory they had already decided to steal in 1965 (at which point, I'd bet their US military base was already planned for Diego Garcia), while Maldives was still under official British rule, before it gained what is supposed to be 'independence' in 1968. But I'd bet the independence is a lie and that all these colonies that gained 'independence' were by then economically bound to the Evil US-Anglo Empire.
What we have in the summary re the Chagos Archipelago is a portrait, in miniature, of how capitalism operates, past and present. The essence of capitalism is always the same: destruction, rape, exploitation and greed, for the vast enrichment of the few.
Capitalists murdered the dodo, enslaved people, created all the problems that there is between people who have been transported to locations they don't belong in etc.
The COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS, is the evil headquarters, in my opinion. This is the Anglo heart of the still-beating imperialist empire that has destroyed European nations (I think this is the nerve centre ... not sure yet, but it feels that way).
By the time Harold Macmillan give his 'Winds of Bullsh*t' speech in 1959, the US-Anglo empire had already plotted the destruction of European societies.
I've yet to look at the Macmillan speech, but that's my initial feeling, and I'd wager that these are the creeps responsible for destroying British and colonial European nations.
*I can't understand the military worship of some of the nationalist types, because the Western military is just a capitalists' attack-dog, that does the bidding on behalf of capitalism (at the expense of the working classes - both in numbers of dead and in destructive consequences to nations: eg. damaged former soldiers; blowback terrorism potential, blowback third world invasion, in the overall program of invasion). The military is the tool of wealthy capitalist elites, and nothing more. The military is rarely used to defend capitalist nations from actual threat, and it mostly exploits the gullible.
Although, I suppose there are people who just want the lifestyle and the ability to commit aggression on others, for the thrill factor, from the safety of high-tech planes and ships (mostly), like when they bombed the children of Serbia.
And then there's the mercenaries. Think they might like to get closer. They're sort of like modern-day Samurai, maybe? Not exactly. Think they're from poor South American nations and therefore probably exploited, rather than living by some Samurai and clan code.
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