On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"

Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis... by defrost on Saturday October 26, 2024 @07:32PM (#41958524)

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.

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Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis... by atombender on Saturday October 26, 2024 @08:03PM (#41958733)

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.

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Re:On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the Britis... by defrost on Saturday October 26, 2024 @08:23PM (#41958839)

> but nobody calls this ethnic cleansing.

Perhaps a point you might make to someone who used the term?

Were Germans forcibly removed from Ramstein?

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