Posted on 02/25/2019 9:09:39 PM PST by blueplum
Full title: Future of controversial US military base Diego Garcia hangs in the balance after UN rules the Indian Ocean archipelago was illegally seized in the 1960s by Britain and should give be given back to Mauritius
The future of a US military base constructed on a British territory in Mauritius has been thrown into doubt after a United Nations ruling on Monday. The UN's high court has ordered the United Kingdom to give the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after an investigation revealed they'd been seized under illegal pretenses during the 1960s and 70s. This could, however, also cause a huge issue for the US too, as the territory's largest atoll, Diego Garcia, has been home to a sizable US military base for the past five decades. The Chagos base was constructed after the UK ousted more than 2,000 island natives from their homes and leased the grounds ...
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Not even the 9th Circuit would try to enforce a non binding opinion.
That’s what I say - come and take it.
Right. Come and take it.
More 'terms' that are not what they say in any respect:
Planned Parenthood
Ethics Committee
Equal Rights
Pro Choice
Reproductive Rights
Free Speech
Let the UN come and take it.
Condemn the UN building as unsafe for human habitation, which is almost true. It’s about at the point where it would be cheaper to tear it down and rebuild it than to fix it.
Oh, well then: use it as public housing for lawyers. ;)
Chagos was not an idyllic Polynesian atoll, settled in antiquity.
It was uninhabited, before several investors started coconut plantations and imported laborers to work them.
The inhabitants lived in housing provided by the plantation owners, ate food imported by the plantation owners, drank water collected by facilities built by the plantation owners.
And the plantations had been sold, the company stores closed. There was not and had not been a subsistence economy, and anyone who would have remained on the islands would have starved. Remember, these weren’t Polynesian with a culture and tradition of feeding themselves from the sea, they were Africans who’d been working the fields in the coconut plantations that no longer existed.
The islanders had no claim to real property. No title to land that they’d actually owned.
And as for Mauritius, there was no Mauritius at the time. Their claim is based in the idea that both Mauritius and Chagos had both one been part of the same colonial administrative territory. Which is exactly the same claim that Iraq had over Kuwait.
I’m sure Hillary already sold it to China back in 2016.
Send the UnitedNazis there.
can we ship the UN to the Mauritius?
Obama is smiling.
And how many divisions has the UN?
So, come and take it back!
Is this really about Brexit...?
Imagine how seriously this would be taken if this were a Russian or Chinese base. Lots of laughter.
It is the garage for the US for the Middle East and Central Asia. Everything is there.
OK, right after the Russians give back Crimea.
Ha ha ha ha ha! No.
What are you gonna do about it UN?
Yes. This reeks of PLA aided by useful idiots like Wilkerson.
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