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WikiLeaks, Princess Anne and Mauritius

WikiLeaks, Princess Anne and Mauritius

The Princess Royal gets caught up in a political storm in Mauritius.

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Chagos, Vince Cable, and Ed Miliband

Chagos, Vince Cable, and Ed Miliband

The Chagos controversy is now making an impact at the highest levels of government. How will the new Labour leader respond?

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Chagos: coalition ditches promise to reverse policy

Chagos: coalition ditches promise to reverse policy

UK government ministers come out against resettlement of Indian Ocean islanders.

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Diego Garcia revisited

Diego Garcia revisited

A year on from his arrest on Diego Garcia, Sean Carey speaks to former Rainbow Warrior skipper Pete Bouquet about direct action and the ongoing plight of the Chagossians

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Cable wades into Chagos injustice row

Cable wades into Chagos injustice row

Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable has thrown his weight behind a new cross party group that aims to persuade David Miliband to right a very old British injustice

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Plight of the unpeople

Britain happily colludes in the great state crimes of other western governments. Take the law lords' betrayal of the Chagos Islanders

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Dear David...

Dear David...

Sean Carey, who has written extensively on the plight of the Chagos islanders, pens an open letter to UK foreign secretary David Miliband

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No way home

This week the law lords denied Chagossians their right of the return. Sean Carey joined islanders at the verdict.

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The Chagossians fate

On Wednesday the law lords will deliver their verdict on the Chagossians right to return home. Sean Carey looks back on their decades in exile

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Chagos and the Law Lords

Witnessing the evidence as the Lord Laws hear the case of the Chagos Islanders - forcibly removed from their homes by the British in the 1960s and 1970s

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More in Chagos

A future for the Chagossians

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an expert on ethnicity, identity politics and nationalism. Here he talks to fellow academic Sean Carey about UK treatment of the Chagos Islanders

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Britain's worst gift

Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase

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How the Chagossians could go home

The issue of whether it would actually be viable for the Chagossian people to return to their former island lives

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Arrested in Diego Garcia

Sean Carey talks to Pete Bouquet about his arrest for entering the waters around Diego Garcia - the site of a key US military base

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The truth about rendition

An apology by David Miliband over the use of UK territory in US rendition flights leaves questions about claims of a secret prison facility on Diego Garcia

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The Chagossian story

On 23 January Olivier Bancoult gives evidence to UK MPs about the treatment of his people by the British. Here Sean Carey interviews the campaigner

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Sailing to Chagos - Q&A

Sam Bouquet is sailing to the Chagos Archipelago to draw attention to the plight of the exiled Chagossian islanders. Sean Carey asks him about his epic journey.

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Don't mention the Chagossians

A resolution to the long-running British injustice to the Chagos islanders could have signalled a switch in UK foreign policy

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Britain's unethical foreign policy

Sean Carey calls on Gordon Brown to right a long standing wrong in Diego Garcia while Vidisha Biswas looks at the story of the exiles

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The story of the Chagossians

Vidisha Biswas investigates the story of the Chagossians - forcibly removed from their Indian Ocean island home - and finds, 40 years on, opinion is divided about going back

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The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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