More than 50 years after Britain secretly planned, with the U.S., to force a mass deportation of the Indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a new Human Rights Watch report is demanding that both governments pay reparations.
More than 50 years after the British government secretly planned, with the United States, to force a mass deportation of the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago an international human rights group released a scathing report Wednesday demanding that both governments pay reparations to the people forced off their homeland and allow them an “unfettered permanent return.
The Chagossian people are descendants of enslaved Africans forcibly brought from the continent of Africa and Madagascar to the then-uninhabited Chagos Islands, where they were forced to work on coconut plantations overseen by British and French enslavers. Over the next hundreds of years, the Chagossians would become a distinct people, creating their own Chagossian Creole language, culture and music.
Baldwin said reparations would mean a right to return and “full financial compensation for all the harms inflicted on them.” The United States, he said, “should come clean about its role in the last 60 years in the forced displacement of the Chagossians from their homeland, and in preventing their return, by publishing all relevant documents.”The State Department did not respond immediately to a request for comment from The Washington Post. In January, Erin M.
Tanya Greene, head of Human Rights Watch’s U.S. Program, said Washington should acknowledge its role in the forcible removal of the Chagossian people from their land. In 1973, Goldsmith explained, Britain paid the Mauritian government 650,000 pounds “to meet the cost of resettling those displaced from the islands.” That money was later distributed among Chagossian families living in Mauritius. Britain paid another 4 million pounds to settle “claims arising from the resettlement process.
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