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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
They will however reassure the Americans that the Diego Garcia base can stay,
albeit with different landlords.
Mr Ramgoolam is likely make the argument to Mr Cameron that the original
decision to remove the Chagossians was unlawful.
David Snoxell, a former British high commissioner to Mauritius and secretary
of the Chagos Islands all-party parliamentary group, said: “What better
opportunity could there be than for the two leaders to discuss the issues
face to face?
“What better way to mark the Queen’s long reign, which has seen the
transition of Empire to Commonwealth, than by bringing an end to this
tragedy and relic of Empire in the Indian Ocean and allowing the Queen’s
subjects to return to their beloved islands?”
The meeting between the prime ministers comes as the Government faces multiple
legal challenges over the islands.
In July the High Court in London is due to hold a judicial review on legality
of the 200-mile Marine Protection Area created in 2010 in the final months
of the Labour government.
Chagossians exiled on Mauritius argue that the wildlife haven was created
principally to prevent islanders’ returning, as it contained a ban on all
types of fishing, which would be vital to returnees’ survival.
In a US diplomatic cable unearthed by WikiLeaks, Foreign Office official Colin
Roberts “asserted that establishing a marine park would, in effect, put
paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago’s former residents”.
Mr Ramgoolam’s government is bringing a separate case before the International
Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in Hamburg that Britain did not have the
right to declare the conservation area. Mauritius is being represented in
the case by Philippe Sands, the leading international human rights lawyer.
Mauritius has tried to prove its trustworthiness to Britain and the US by
agreeing to have a court to try pirates operating off the east African
coast. It believes it is on stronger ground to make its arguments about
sovereignty and the right of the islanders to resettle.
In July, the European Court of Human Rights is likely to rule an appeal by
islanders that they should be granted the right to return to the islands.
The right was granted by the High Court in 2000 only to be reversed in the
House of Lords after several attempts by the Government.
“It is a unique case. Nobody has been banished from their homeland,”
said Roch Evenor, chairman of the UK Chagos Support Association, who left
the islands when he was four years old.
“Over the years the Foreign Office has found all sorts of excuses not to
let us back. We hope this case will at last give us justice.”
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