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Government attempts to block Chagos return sickening - Davey
1 July 2008


Mr Edward Davey

Commenting on today’s challenge by the Government to Chagos Islanders’ right to return home, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey said:

"The Government must cease this endless waste of taxpayers’ money and do what is right by the Chagossians. This is what Robin Cook promised when he was Foreign Secretary.

"The spectacle of David Miliband’s lawyers invoking 19th century colonial laws to defend the indefensible is frankly sickening.

"This is not a legal matter, it is a matter of principle. The Chaggosians must be allowed to go home.

"Together with the scandal of secret US renditions from Diego Garcia, the abuse of these islands is a shameful stain on Britain’s global reputation."

 

 


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