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OFFICIALLY RELEASED TODAY. AT NEIGHBORHOOD AND AREA SO COMMITTED TO ISSUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE. SO IT FEELS RIGHT. AND A HOME TO ME. WHEREVER I HAPPEN...
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GO HOME. AND GC CABLES AND ADMIRATION GOVERNMENT APPROACHING
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BRITISH OFFICIALS ON THEIR BEHALF, BUT ALL THESE REQUESTS WERE TURNED DOWN. THE SAME HAPPENED IN 1971 WHEN CHAGOSSIANS ON DIEGO GARCIA WERE TOLD YOU...
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BRITISH POSSESSION AND REMAIN PART
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| 00:21:02 |
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OF THE BRITISH COLONY UNTIL 1964 AND 1965 WIN WHEN, AS PART OF THE SITUATION ON DIEGO GARCIA, BRITISH OFFICIALS AT THE URGING OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT...
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| 00:21:58 |
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PROBABLY RIGHT. THE PAYMENT OF $14 MILLION WAS AGAIN, DONE IN A WAY TO AVOID HAVING TO GO BEFORE CONGRESS AND ASKED FOR $40 MILLION APPROPRIATIONS....
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| 00:22:18 |
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SYSTEMS. >> WAS THE GOVERNMENT WARNED OR CONSULTED ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT WERE JUST GOING TO APPEAR THEIR? >> CONSULTED, THEY WERE WARNED IN A CERTAIN...
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| 00:22:42 |
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A CHOICE, THAT THEY COULD EITHER ACCEPT 3 MILLION POUNDS FROM THE BRITISH
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GOVERNMENT, OUT OF THE $40 MILLION THAT THE U.S. PAID, AND HAD THE CHAGOSSIANS CHOPPED OFF OF BERISHA AND TERRITORY, OR THEY COULD, AND THEY WOULD GAIN...
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| 00:24:11 |
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FIND THEIR WAY TO FIND HOMES, TO FIND -- THEY ARRIVED UNEMPLOYED, LITERALLY HOMELESS AND JUST HAD TO FIND ANYONE WHO WOULD LET THEM
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| 00:24:21 |
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IN, TAKEN IN. SOME HAD FAMILY MEMBERS AND THEY DOUBLED UP AS I MENTIONED IN 1978 TIGERS AFTER THE LAST DEPORTATION, THEY RECEIVED SMALL COMPENSATION...
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| 00:25:14 |
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GARCIA, OR YOU PROVIDE IS SOME WAY TO SUPPORT OURSELVES HERE. AND EVENTUALLY THEY RECEIVED SOME DECREPIT ABANDONED HOUSING NEAR THE DOCKS. BUT THAT...
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| 00:25:55 |
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THOSE UNFAMILIAR IT SORT OF LOOKS LIKE A HEART ALMOST OR OF THE, SORT OF LIKE THIS.
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| 00:26:04 |
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THE INSIDE IS A GIANT LAGOON AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THE U.S. NAVY LIKED IT. YOU CAN HOST AN ENTIRE AIRCRAFT CARRIER TASK FORCE IN THE LAGOON....
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| 00:27:07 |
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HERE'S HOW RITA DESCRIBE THAT DAY. WHEN SHE WAS TOLD THAT SHE COULDN'T RETURN. RITA ALEXIA BEEN SLICED OPEN AND ALL THE BLOOD SPILLED FROM HER BODY....
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| 00:48:36 |
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DIEGO GARCIA? >> YEAH. THAT IS A DANGER. AND I SHOULD MENTION THAT THE POPULATION NOW IS OVER 5000 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BORN IN EXILE. AND THE MEMBERS...
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| 00:48:58 |
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SOME DON'T KNOW, SORT OF AN ABSTRACT QUESTION. DO YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO A PLACE YOU HAVE NEVER LIVED IN. YOU HAVE ONLY HEARD THE STORIES. SOME FEEL DEEPLY...
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| 00:50:18 |
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| 00:50:21 |
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THEM. >> IS THERE HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS OR EXAMPLES WHERE GENERATIONS LATER, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN BEING ALLOWED TO RETURN, WHETHER IT IS ALLOWED...
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| 00:50:43 |
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FEW. WELL, THE STRONGEST PARALLEL WOULD BE THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI, WHO HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO GO BACK, ALTHOUGH THAT IS DECOMPENSATED RETURN WHEN THEY...
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| 00:51:05 |
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GOTTEN BACK THEIR ISLANDS IN COMPLICATED WAYS. THEY STILL DON'T HAVE TOTAL CONTROL. ALSO THERE WAS A PLAN THAT DISPLAYS ALL OF THEM AS WHETHER THEY...
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| 00:51:59 |
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TROPICAL ISLANDS, VERY ISOLATED. AND SIMILAR ISLANDS ARE VERY MUCH SOUGHT AFTER BY ROSA BY EUROPEANS.
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| 00:52:08 |
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TO THE IDEA WOULD BE TO BUILD AN ECONOMY BASED AROUND HIGH-END TOURISM AND SMALL HANDICRAFT, SOME COCONUT PROCESSING AS BEFORE. ON SMALL LEVELS. AT...
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| 00:52:48 |
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BUT BRITISH AND U.S. OFFICIALS LET BOATERS STOP BY THE ISLAND, LIVED THERE FOR WEEKS, MONTHS AT A TIME HAVING BARBECUES ON THE BEACHES. BUT ON OCCASIONS...
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| 00:54:00 |
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FROM THEM, AS THEY WERE. ISN'T DECOLONIZATION PROCESS, UNDER THE DECOLONIZATION PROCESS ESTABLISHED BY THE UN, COLONIES
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| 00:54:08 |
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WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DIVIDED UP WHEN THEY REGAINED THEIR INDEPENDENCE, WHICH IN FACT IS WHAT BRITAIN DID. SO MAURITIUS CLAIMS THE ISLAND. SO FUTURE...
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| 00:55:08 |
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WITH A HISTORY BACK TO DIEGO GARCIA? DID YOU GET A SENSE OF THAT? AND WERE THERE HEALERS WHO,
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| 00:55:16 |
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YOU KNOW, WOULD DEAL WITH THAT? >> NO, DEFINITELY NOT. PEOPLE WOULD EXPLAIN THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT
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| 00:55:23 |
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THEY DIDN'T HAVE IN DIEGO GARCIA AND THE OTHER ISLANDS, THAT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT EMERGED IN EXILE THAT IS VERY MUCH A DISEASE, A COMBINATION OF LIVING...
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| 00:55:40 |
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TO GIVE YOU THE BROADEST OF HEALTH CONTEXT, THEIR HEALTH WAS ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD IN CHAGOS. IT WAS BETTER THAN THAT IN MAURITIUS, BUT NOT HAVING QUITE...
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| 00:56:27 |
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A RESOLUTION. >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT A RESOLUTION CAME FROM, WHAT COUNTRY? >>
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| 00:56:34 |
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I BELIEVE I U.K., PARLIAMENTARIAN IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. THERE IS NOW A GROUP OF OVER 40 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT OF U.K. MEMBERS PARLIAMENT AND...
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| 00:56:50 |
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PARLIAMENTARIAN, MEN LORDS WHO HAVE CREATED AN ALL PARTY GROUP IN BRITAIN TO SUPPORT THE CHAGOSSIANS AND THEIR RIGHT TO RETURN AND PUT PRESSURE ON
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| 00:56:58 |
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THE GOVERNMENT. >> AND YOU SAID THAT WE WOULD AT LEAST MAKE SOME ATTEMPT TO GET SOMETHING TO GO HERE, SUPPORT OF SOME SORT OF? >> THERE IS A SUPPORT...
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| 00:57:24 |
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FOR THAT. BUT CAN USE ALL THE HELP THEY CAN
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| 00:57:29 |
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GET. DO, THEY ARE A VERY SMALL PEOPLE. 5000, A LITTLE MORE THAN 5000 TRYING TO MOVE, YOU KNOW, THE TWO MAJOR POWERS OF THE WORLD. AND IT IS AN UPHILL...
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| 00:58:43 |
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OUR GRADUATE SCHOOL, BUT THE
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| 00:58:45 |
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LAWYERS GOT INVOLVED THROUGH A SERIES OF CONNECTIONS WERE THE CHAGOSSIANS LAWYER IN MAURITIUS HAD
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| 00:58:51 |
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GONE TO SCHOOL IN FRANCE. AND
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| 00:58:55 |
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HE HAD STUDIED UNDER MICHAEL TIGER, WHO IS A FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN
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| 00:58:59 |
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LAWYER HERE WHO WAS VOTED IN CALIFORNIA THE THIRD BEST LAWYER OF THE 20th CENTURY AFTER CLARENCE DARROW AND THURGOOD MARSHALL, HE REPRESENTED ANGELA...
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YOU. [APPLAUSE] >>
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DONATIST,
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