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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…_
