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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65777863
I could cut and paste any sentence from this tragic situation. Let me ‘clickbait’ you with this “All can agree that the Diego Garcia military base was not a place intended to house asylum seekers”
The phrase ‘hoisted by your own’ just isn’t enough…_
Contrary to the impression I may have delivered, this is not ‘breaking news’. I have to admit it is all ‘breaking news’ to me though. If anybody has anything else on this tragedy please post.
A bit more ‘click bait’ for you…_
DiggerUK, thanks for posting this. Yes, it’s news to me too. I’ll post here if I find out anything more.
I did some more ferreting around and came up with this Guardian article from October 2022.
Then it got worse, this from The Tamil Guardian, May 2022.
Then I find this Crowd Funding appeal which claims they have been there since October 2021. Excuse my sums, but that comes in at 20 months on my abacus.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/urgent-appeal-helping-sri-lankan-tamils-stranded/
As I can’t find anything from Pepe Escobar, John Pilger, Johnathan Cooke etc., or our host, I’m wondering if I’m reading all this right…_
More thoughts.
Which ministry is responsible?… Defence, Foreign, Home, Cabinet. Is it the Americans, or is this one for the UN…_Some of the Sri Lankans in limbo on the Chagos Islands did get legal aid granted by the UK Supreme Court on May 5th 2023.
As it was the day prior to the coronation of our unelected head of state it probably slipped under a lot of radars. The legal points are interesting in themselves.Makes me wonder if the refugees count as inhabitants of the Islands, meaning that the Islands cannot be classed as being uninhabited anymore…_
Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded in Diego Garcia win right to legal aid – Leigh Day, 5 May 2023
Ten Sri-Lankan asylum seekers who landed on Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT) in October 2021 won their judicial review claim for granting of legal aid in the Supreme Court of the BIOT in a judgment handed down today.I’m sure there will be more to hear over the weekend. Daily Mail seems to be first out of the traps. What becomes of the refugees now I wonder…_
A BBC update. Do we even have a foreign affairs minister anymore? Oh yes, Lord Cameron…_
The command’s mission is “To provide logistic support to operational forces forward deployed to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf”
These islands are quite close to Iran.
I can’t think that the U.K. or the U.S.A. will let them go. Currently China is on the move, in this part of the World.“Maldives [ .. ]
Analysts view the victory as strong backing for Mr Muizzu’s policy to achieve close ties with China.Mr Muizzu, who is widely seen as pro-China, wants to reduce India’s longstanding influence in his country.
Local media have described the PNC’s win, which will be ratified in several days’ time, as a “super majority”. It has achieved the two-thirds in parliament that is required to amend the constitution.”
It is 3,300 miles from the Australian naval base near Perth to Diego Garcia.
It is 2,500 miles from Diego Garcia to the Strait of Hormuz.
As the U.S.A. and Australia and the United Kingdom have entered into AUKUS, there is no way this asset will be let go for the Chinese to gobble up.Maldives
the new political decision to send the Indian troops home has strained the Maldives ties with Delhi and Beijing has appeared keen to exploit that.Mr. Muizzu went on a state visit to Beijing in January and signed several agreements for investments.
In March Male signed a “military assistance” agreement with China!
I guess AUKUS is mainly about countering China in the Indo – Pacific – Arabian arena.
Grant Shapps Minister of Defence has been giving speech to The Royal Navy
He seemed to suggest more submarines for AUKUS, more apprenticeships for Naval Shipbuilding in Scotland.
More naval bases, probably shared with U.S.A. and Australia. Much more money and many more ships and some more navy personnel.
As Rishi said the U.K. is ramping Defence spending, especially for submarines.
No actual mention of the BIOTBut you can take it that the U.K. will not be giving up Diego Garcia anytime soon, nor will the U.K. be giving up The Falkland Islands anytime soon.
No, you could not make it up.
U.S.A. has dominance over U.K. colony.“The U.S.A. government has blocked a British court hearing from taking place on a British territory, citing security concerns, the BBC understands.
The supreme court of British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) was due to hold a hearing this week, attended by the BBC, on whether a group of migrants was being unlawfully detained on the island of Diego Garcia.
The island hosts a secretive UK-US military base and access is heavily restricted.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe2v2mdg7vo
Britain went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for the military base.
The United Kingdom has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.
The deal – reached after years of negotiations – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
I can’t believe the Americans are allowing the Labour government to do this?
It’s the U.S.A. base to bomb the Middle East/Iran.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5oThe deal expressly permits the US base on Diego Garcia residence for the next 99 years and the UK airbase too.
BBC correspondent just reported that the US needs to keep its huge base at Diego Garcia *until at least the 22nd century* because of the “danger of the extension of Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean”.
As always, the American empire just vanishes from view.This is all very strange, I did not have any idea we would be dumping the BIOT
Mr. Muizzu went on a state visit to Beijing in January and signed several agreements for investments.
In March Male signed a “military assistance” agreement with China!
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), an archipelago of 58 islands covering some 640,000 sq km of ocean, is a British Overseas Territory. It is administered from London and is located approximately halfway between East Africa and Indonesia.
https://www.biot.gov.io/
Essentially, other than the military nobody lives in The BIOT.
If the Maldives are leaning towards China, why would the U.K. give the BIOT to the Maldives.
If we are retaining the military bases for the next centuary, and nobody else lives on any of these coral reefs, does this mean the Maldives will be settling the coral reefs?
