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Post by bigjohnritchie on Jul 9, 2024 17:05:05 GMT
I know nothing about this. Do any posters have insight? The UK has illegal jurisdiction according to the UN. It is leased to the US. The Sri Lankan asylum seekers are stranded/ imprisoned. There does seem to be links to Rwanda. What's it all about? Any of the Navy lads know anything about the island? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe2v2mdg7vowww.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67996408
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 9, 2024 17:51:35 GMT
I stayed there for two weeks in 2012. My impression was it’s a British Territory leased to the US for a peppercorn rent. Diego Garcia is effectively a stationery aircraft carrier for American Jet Bombers, it also still has a strong role to play for the Royal Navy as an important base in the Indian Ocean. As regards the displaced chagossians, they hope to return to the island/Archipelago one day but I suspect its location makes it too strategically important. The chagossians also want DG to be an overseas British territory so that makes them less interesting to any left wing suitors. Mauritius Claim on the territory is based on the fact that they were dismembered prior to independence from the rest of Mauritian territory and the UN agrees. While the yanks are effectively running the place (and it feels like American territory there) DG will stay as it is. If the yanks move on, it’s likely the UK will return DG to Mauritius.
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Jul 9, 2024 18:00:28 GMT
I agree with Pete, I find it very hard to believe that ourselves or the Yanks would ever give it up, it's an unsinkable aircraft carrier and as China & India continue to grow, and their interests in Africa increase, there's no way we'd give up such a strategic location.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Jul 9, 2024 18:01:52 GMT
I stayed there for two weeks in 2012. My impression was it’s a British Territory leased to the US for a peppercorn rent. Diego Garcia is effectively a stationery aircraft carrier for American Jet Bombers, it also still has a strong role to play for the Royal Navy as an important base in the Indian Ocean. As regards the displaced chagossians, they hope to return to the island/Archipelago one day but I suspect its location makes it too strategically important. The chagossians also want DG to be an overseas British territory so that makes them less interesting to any left wing suitors. Mauritius Claim on the territory is based on the fact that they were dismembered prior to independence from the rest of Mauritian territory and the UN agrees. While the yanks are effectively running the place (and it feels like American territory there) DG will stay as it is. If the yanks move on, it’s likely the UK will return DG to Mauritius. Thanks Dutch
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