Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis...
by defrost on Saturday October 26, 2024 @07:32PM
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While "ethnic cleansing" has overtones of torture an or murder, "forcibly removed" is accurate and occurred from 1968 to the removal of the last Chagossians in 1973.
Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis...
by atombender on Saturday October 26, 2024 @08:03PM
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But we they were already removed, then any revenue from .io does not support it, since it already happened.
And while the continued existence of the UK/US base prevents Chagossians from living there, that seems unrelated to the question of sovereignty; for example, the US Air Force base in Ramstein also prevents Germans from living in the territory occupied by the base's footprint, but nobody calls this ethnic cleansing.
Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis...
by defrost on Saturday October 26, 2024 @08:23PM
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> but nobody calls this ethnic cleansing.
Perhaps a point you might make to someone who used the term?
Were Germans forcibly removed from Ramstein?
Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis...
by hulitu on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:10AM
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> According to the British government, it receives no revenue from the .io domain, which owned by a private equity company
And this company operates out of jurisdiction, I presume. /s
As to Diego Garcia, my understanding is that Mauritius will be given back sovereignty of it, as well as the other islands, and that the UK and US governments will merely lease the island of Diego Garcia. This is not an unusual arrangement. The UK and US have military bases around the world on foreign territory, to the exclusion of the local population.
Not so sure if this qualifies as ethnic cleansing when nobody is being forcibly removed from anywhere, since they're not actually there.