Thread by @davidsvine

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

For decades most of the world has ignored how US + UK forcibly removed #Chagossians from their homeland, left them in impoverished exile, + barred returning home. Details are thoroughly documented in @hrw report “That’s When the Nightmare Started" 4/7 hrw.org/node/384018

It's long overdue that a major human rights organization call out the US + UK govts for crimes against humanity in exiling #Chagossians.

Justice for Chagossians is long overdue.

Now US + UK must act to repair the damage as Chagossians, @hrw demand 5/7 hrw.org/node/384018

As Human Rights Watch + Chagossians say, justice means:

1) allowing #Chagossians to return home
2) resettlement assistance
3) proper compensation for 1/2 century of exile
4) official US + UK govt apologies. 6/7

hrw.org/node/384018

Biden administration + Congress now must acknowledge responsibility for crimes against humanity by US officials against #Chagossians + help repair the damage by allowing Chagossians return home, including Diego Garcia; assist w/ resettlement; pay compensation; + apologize. 7/7