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The article provides a clear and detailed explanation of how the traditional inhabitants, who had settled there over a century ago, were forcibly re-settled by

The article provides a clear and detailed explanation of how the traditional inhabitants, who had settled there over a century ago, were forcibly re-settled by the British. The court decision in question calls for them to be returned to the descendants of those people. I presume you got the quoted statistic from the Chagos Islands info box on that Wikipedia page. If so, I'd urge you to scroll down just a little bit farther to learn the info that the rest of us read in the article. Here's a link to help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago#Sovereignty_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago#Sovereignty...

mrob 7y ago
If they get their island back, why don't the Native Americans get their whole countries back too?
- blibble 7y ago
  it was also never their island, they lived there as employees only. their ancestors were brought to the uninhabited island by the French it would be like claiming an oil rig or country estate as your family's property because you've had several generations of drillers/domestic staff employed by the owners
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  - bloak 7y ago
    No, it's not like that at all, because an oil rig counts as a vessel, whereas an island is land.
- zaroth 7y ago
  It’s a bit different when the territory is settled by non-indigenous people for a few generations, versus occupied, or just a few structures built and no one really lives there at all.
mherdeg 7y ago
My sense is that people mostly just don't want to hear or think about the sometimes messy way that things got to be the way they are (I saw "-2 points" when discussing this a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19626519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19626519 ). This isn't unique to tech startups. I live in Massachusetts and do not regularly think about what exactly happened to the Massachusett people. It was not great.

mrob 7y ago

If they get their island back, why don't the Native Americans get their whole countries back too?

blibble 7y ago
it was also never their island, they lived there as employees only. their ancestors were brought to the uninhabited island by the French it would be like claiming an oil rig or country estate as your family's property because you've had several generations of drillers/domestic staff employed by the owners
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- bloak 7y ago
  No, it's not like that at all, because an oil rig counts as a vessel, whereas an island is land.
zaroth 7y ago
It’s a bit different when the territory is settled by non-indigenous people for a few generations, versus occupied, or just a few structures built and no one really lives there at all.

mherdeg 7y ago

My sense is that people mostly just don't want to hear or think about the sometimes messy way that things got to be the way they are (I saw "-2 points" when discussing this a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19626519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19626519 ). This isn't unique to tech startups. I live in Massachusetts and do not regularly think about what exactly happened to the Massachusett people. It was not great.