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The 20th Century m'zuŋ u Scramble for Independent Africa

"Veni, Vidi, Vici ",Steti - ego adduxit inimici mei"

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On 18 March 2015, the Permanent Court of Arbitration unanimously held that the marine

protected area (MPA) which the United Kingdom declared around the Chagos
Archipelago in April 2010 was created in violation of international law. "

"Chagos Archipelago Sovereignty Dispute. 130
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“ In early March 1967, the British Commissioner declared BIOT Ordinance Number Two.
This unilateral proclamation, the Acquisition of Land for Public Purposes (Private Treaty)

Ordinance, enabled the Commissioner to acquire any land he liked (for the UK
government). On 3 April of that year, under the provisions of the order, the British
government bought all the plantations of the Chagos archipelago for £660,000 from the

Chagos Agalega Company. The plan was to deprive the Chagossians of an income and
encourage them to leave the island voluntarily. In a memo from this period, Colonial

Office head Denis Greenhill (later Lord Greenhill of Harrow) wrote to the British
Delegation at the UN:

"The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours; there will be no

indigenous population except seagulls who have not yet got a committee. Unfortunately,
along with the Birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays whose origins are obscure, and
who are being hopefully wished on to Mauritius, etc."

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" Later in 1968, the British government asked for help from the legal department of their
own Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in creating a legal basis for deporting the
Chaggosians the islands. The first paragraph of the FCO's reply read:

"The purpose of the Immigration Ordinance is to maintain the fiction that the

inhabitants of the Chagos are not a permanent or semi-permanent population. The
Ordinance would be published in the BIOT gazette which has only very limited

circulation. Publicity will therefore be minimal." "

"Expulsion of the Chagossians" 131
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