The obvious (hah!) answer is that since the court judgement relies on the fact that the Chagos Islands were under Mauritian control when Mauritius was a French colony we should return them to the Fre… (View Post)

One of the problems revealed by the people going through the prosecution case was that Dewi Evans kept changing his mind about which babies had been murdered & which hadn’t. IIRC there’s evidence… (View Post)

The rulings of this particular court are advisory: We are not required to implement them by any treaty. If Mauritius is so intent on having them returned to Mauritian control, why are why having to p… (View Post)

You’d think so, but I honestly think it’s lawyer brain in action. You can’t possibly refuse to implement a legal ruling: what would the world come to if every country did that?! (Spoiler: we are in a… (View Post)

Jesus wept. Where exactly are we supposed to be getting this £9billion from? To pay for a transfer of sovereignty that the Chagossians themselves don’t even want & pisses off our most important m… (View Post)