{"id":994220,"date":"2023-02-15T05:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/chagos-islanders-full-reparations-exile-colonial-crime-human-rights-watch-trial"},"modified":"2023-02-15T05:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:01:02","slug":"chagos-islanders-must-get-full-reparations-for-forced-exile-says-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/15\/chagos-islanders-must-get-full-reparations-for-forced-exile-says-ngo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chagos islanders must get full reparations for forced exile, says NGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch also demands trial for \u2018appalling colonial crime\u2019 of expulsion \u2013 and continuing ill treatment \u2013 of Chagossians<\/p>\n<p>The UK should pay full and unconditional reparations to generations affected by its forcible displacement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/chagos-islands\">Chagos Islands<\/a> inhabitants in the 1960s and 70s, an action that constituted a crime against humanity, Human Rights Watch has said.<\/p>\n<p>The NGO said that individuals should be put on trial for the expulsion of Chagossians when the UK retained possession of what it refers to as British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT, after Mauritius gained independence in 1968.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/chagos-islanders-full-reparations-exile-colonial-crime-human-rights-watch-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch also demands trial for \u2018appalling colonial crime\u2019 of expulsion \u2013 and continuing ill treatment \u2013 of ChagossiansThe UK should pay full and unconditional reparations to generations affected by its forcible displacement of Chagos Islands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,3294,2106,6,640,3295,2675,57426,1314,1,111,1315,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994408,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994220\/revisions\/994408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}