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US govt reply to @HRW report showing US crimes against humanity in exiling #Chagossians during creation US base @ Diego Garcia is an outrage. @StateDept "acknowledges the challenges faced by Chagossian communities"? Biden admin must acknowledge US responsibility for the exile.🧵 
@StateDept @StateDeptPM is passing buck of responsibility for forcibly displacing #Chagossians to the UK as US govts have for decades. Let's be clear:
1. US govt came up w/ idea for base @ Diego Garcia
2. Insisted on Chagossian removal
3. Paid UK $14m for removal + base
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1. US govt came up w/ idea for base @ Diego Garcia
2. Insisted on Chagossian removal
3. Paid UK $14m for removal + base
2/5
4. Proposed UK separate Chagos islands to create British Indian Ocean Territory violating @UN decolonization rules
5. Ordered final deportation of #Chagossians from Diego Garcia + prevented resettlement planning
6. Ordered, + assisted killing Chagossians’ pet dogs 3/5
5. Ordered final deportation of #Chagossians from Diego Garcia + prevented resettlement planning
6. Ordered, + assisted killing Chagossians’ pet dogs 3/5
US + UK governments committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY by forcibly displacing the entire Chagossian people during construction of US military base on Diego Garcia + barring #Chagossians from returning home for more than 1/2 century @hrw reports today 🧵hrw.org/node/384018
Today's Human Rights Watch report is an unprecedented condemnation of the US + UK for what @hrw rightly calls CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY committed in expelling #Chagossians from Diego Garcia + their other Chagos islands homelands. 2/7 hrw.org/node/384018
#Chagossians are more Black lives that have not mattered to the US government, @HRW shows in documenting US crimes against humanity. 3/7
hrw.org/node/384018
hrw.org/node/384018
#NationalityAndBordersBill
Tomorrow & Wednesday will be last two days for MPs to scrutinise & vote on this Bill. To how much of following can they possibly give proper scrutiny, let alone meaningfully vote upon given Government will ‘whip’ to require its majority wins out? 1/15
Tomorrow & Wednesday will be last two days for MPs to scrutinise & vote on this Bill. To how much of following can they possibly give proper scrutiny, let alone meaningfully vote upon given Government will ‘whip’ to require its majority wins out? 1/15
Clause 9 will empower Home Secretary to strip British citizens of their citizenship in secret.
Stripping people of their citizenship is already a draconian power. Seeking power to do so secretly shows contempt for British citizenship & the rights of every British person. 2/15
Stripping people of their citizenship is already a draconian power. Seeking power to do so secretly shows contempt for British citizenship & the rights of every British person. 2/15
Clause 10 will empower Home Sec to refuse to register right of a stateless child, born in UK & lived here at least five years, to British citizenship.
Leaving kids born & growing up here without British citizenship & stateless shows contempt for children & their rights. 3/15
Leaving kids born & growing up here without British citizenship & stateless shows contempt for children & their rights. 3/15
