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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (29828)	10/9/2003 6:51:36 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (4) of 89467

An anthropological casualty to the forward projection of power. Thousands of destitute Indian Ocean islanders claiming compensation for being evicted from their homes by the British Government more than 30 years ago were branded "liars" by a High Court judge yesterday when he threw out their legal action. Mr Justice Ouseley, sitting in the High Court in London, ruled that there were no reasonable grounds for bringing their action, including their claim for a declaration that they had a right to return home to the Chagos Islands. The judge acknowledged that some of the islanders had been "treated shamefully" when the British evicted them from their archipelago to pave the way for an American military base on Diego Garcia at the height of the Cold War. But he said that their legal claims for compensation for personal injury suffered during their eviction and resettlement in Mauritius and Seychelles in the 1960s and 1970s were stale and were now time-barred. and more from news.independent.co.uk JMO lurqer Edit: Anticipating tonight's Frontline - even though the date of the piece (when it was edited) is the end of the first week in August, so just over two months.

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