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Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic military base. Fifty-one years later, the petite matriarch says she, like many Chagossians living in Britain…
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Chagos diaspora angry at lack of input on islands’ fate
AFP
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Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic military base. Fifty-one years later, the petite matriarch says she, like many Chagossians living in Britain…
