[lbo-talk] Saving the Chagos Islands ... from the Chagos Islanders!

[James Heartfield]

'The UK government has created the world's largest marine reserve around the 
Chagos Islands.

The reserve would cover a 545,000-sq-km area around the Indian Ocean 
archipelago, regarded as one of the world's richest marine ecosystems.

This will include an area where commercial fishing will be banned.

But islanders, who were evicted to make way for the US air base on the 
island of Diego Garcia, say a reserve would effectively bar them from 
returning.'

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