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Re:UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands by viraptor on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:31PM (#19998226)
What do you mean by "natives"? It's often used for the first people - and as weird as it is in this case, by that definition Europeans were the natives on that island. If we ignore the timeline, then does Dubai become natively Indian?

This does not mean I disagree with the expelling being cruel and unwarranted. I do think it shouldn't belong to the UK, just don't think that "natives" is meaningful here or explains the reasons.

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Re:UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands by ganeshkrishnan on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:49PM (#19998307)
I used to term natives to refer to people who have been living here for centuries and have made it their home.

The equivalent is expelling everyone from Australia because US/UK wants to build military base there.

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