>Chagos islanders have hailed a "big victory" after a United Nations court found that Britain illegally seized control of their Indian Ocean archipelago for the construction of a US military base 50 years ago.
>The International Court of Justice said Britain's acquisition of the Chagos archipelago in the 1960s was "wrongful" and that it must "bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible."
>Britain evicted about 2,000 people from the Chagos islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the United States could build a large airbase on Diego Garcia, the largest of its atolls. They and their descendants have been campaigning for the right to return home ever since.
>Olivier Bancoult, chairman of the Mauritius-based Chagos Refugees Group, said the ruling made him "so happy." "It is a big victory against an injustice done by the British government for many years. We people have been suffering for many years - I am so lucky today," he said outside court.
>UN: you have to let these people back on the island >US: no >UN: oh okay
Christopher Ortiz
So Britain illegally took the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, and ethnically cleansed the islands so that the Americans could build their Diego Garcia military base. In the meantime, Britain and America are busily lecturing and challenging China for building military bases on rocks that nobody could or had ever lived on before. Somehow, it all makes sense now about Western moral standards.
Christopher Peterson
are you fucking inbred they arent the same at all
the difference is the chagos island was in the middle of the indian ocean hundreds of miles from anything
the islands china are claiming are located close to 5 countries in dead set in the biggest shipping lane in the world
It was an uninhabited island until the frogs and brits set up plantations.
Michael Torres
Why are these retards fighting for those shitty islands? Just get on with your lives, already.
Nathaniel Carter
Nobody gives a shit if China builds bases on islands. The issue is that China then goes “These islands were Chinese whole time. That means that everything between these islands and China is actually China.
Dominic Adams
>2019 >international "courts" still exist For what purpose?
David Roberts
because its their home jackass, your a cuck if you'd vacate your home with out even trying a court date
Nathan Johnson
because there is still white money to be had.
Josiah Reed
Mauritius had rights over those islands and they had original inhabittants.
Ethnic cleansing is wrong. Wronger than building artificial islands on submerged rocks where noone lived before.
Anglos truly are losing their moral authority by the day.
Isaac Scott
>Authorities from Mauritius have previous said that the U.S. base can remain on the island, whatever its status. Last year, Mauritius Defense Minister Anerood Jugnauth said at a hearing that "Mauritius recognizes its existence and has repeatedly made it clear to the United States and the administering power that it accepts the future of the base," according to the AP.
This is 100% a non-story, except for the part where the UK continues to be an international laughing stock.
Alexander Jenkins
>United Nations court Who gives a shit.
Benjamin Martin
How big do you think the Chinese psyops are on 4channel these days? Seeing chinese shills everywhere.
Liam Reyes
UN: we think you should give the islands back
UK:"This is an advisory opinion, not a judgment"
UK has basically said they don't give a shit lol
Jaxson Flores
Oh noes, the UN have made a statement! Someone get me a fire ladder, I'll put it on top of the stack of UN statements that didn't change shit.
Aaron Ward
Reminded me of these words from a Chinese military youtube channel. >Issues between 2 small countries, the UN gets involved, issue is solved. >Issues between a small country and a big country, the UN gets involved, the small country is no more. >Issues between 2 big countries, the UN gets involved, the UN is no more. Long story short, the UN exist just for show.
Asher Diaz
Eh, they have some use. Surely. But the biggest nations have veto right to anything important while the powerful nations can ignore them. It's really just a system to keep small countries in check. Sort of like the class bully that makes sure none of the friendless nerds get uppity.
Of course Mauritius is ok with the US base there. That is a cash cow to them. Pull the US and Brit base out from under them and they own a rock in the middle of the Indian Ocean with zero value. The "ethnically cleansed" live much better where they have been for the last 50 years.
Lincoln Powell
They have swarmed every thread.
Benjamin Stewart
Tell the UN to go fuck themselves
Jace Lopez
>So Britain illegally took the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, and ethnically cleansed the islands so that the Americans could build their Diego Garcia military base. The absolute state of the United Cuckdom.
Thomas Hernandez
The UK pretty much did.
Robert Price
>Seeing chinese shills everywhere. Nothing to see here. Move arong now.
Cooper Wood
>So Britain illegally took the Chagos Islands from Mauritius
My sources say the Chagos Islands were purchased from Mauritius for £3 million. Illegal you say?
Austin Taylor
People are just so fucking sick of Americans and jump on pro-russian/pro-chinese bandwagons to take a jab whenever they can.
Connor Richardson
hello chicom
Robert Murphy
ethnic cleansing is illegal, no matter how much blood money you pay.
Jose Bell
>The coral reef surrounding the seaward side of the atoll is generally broad, flat, and shallow around 1 m (3.3 ft) below mean sea level in most locations and varying from 100 to 200 m (330 to 660 ft) in width. >At the outer edge of the reef shelf, the bottom slopes very steeply into deep water, at some locations dropping to more than 450 m (1,500 ft) within 1 km (0.62 mi) of the shore.[80] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia#Geography jesus fuck shit like this freaks me out FUCK the ocean
>In the meantime, Britain and America are busily lecturing and challenging China for building military bases on rocks that nobody could or had ever lived on before.
china builds on islands that didn't exist a few years ago, shut the fuck up chink.
Austin Harris
Yes, and it harmed not a single man or woman.
Anglo-scums on the other hand...
David Butler
>it harmed not a single man or woman They're asserting control unjustly over trade routes that competing countries would appreciate being free. Who gives a fuck about some natives on an island being displaced, we're talking about the global economy here
Xavier Nelson
chinese and russians want the bombers their gone
Wyatt Hill
Bye bye dodge city " the footprint of freedom"
James Morgan
China most reliant on said trade routes for 90 percent of their seaborne oil supply. Explain me why they would block themselves?
The reality is; the US wants to block the SCS routes to starve China. China's islands are a defensive response to that.
Robert Hernandez
>UN >Implying the International Court of Justice has any legitimacy
Just like that judgement about the SCS not belonging to China.
It does belong to China.
Jayden Adams
Based and chinkpilled
Ryan Nelson
DG has a shitload of sharks in the lagoon. A fuckton of crabs are there, too. I was at the Ex-Pat club, on the deck in back. The sand underneath was empty, then in a few minutes it was so covered in crabs you could not see any sand.
Asher Reyes
They are trying to steal mineral rights.
Gabriel Watson
>ethnic cleansing is illegal Residents weren't killed. They were moved. Eminent domain happens all the time.
Jose Murphy
Jow Forums is easy to troll. The Chicoms know that, so they sent one Agent to start the flames and our resident trolls began role playing as Chicom fiddy cents.
