Do not pull the poet Slamdine BAPTISTE, that is, punches when telling the story of “Granpapa”, one of the people over the age of 1500 people, rupture of a peaceful presence on the Shaghus Islands by the British to make room for a military base for the United States, most of them ship “Kouma” Zanimo “( Meaning “like animals” in their original homeland) to the fate of a hellite more than 1000 miles (1610 km) across the Indian Ocean in Mauritius.

The 26 -year -old connects her poems on the outskirts of Louis Port, and she connects her grandfather’s memories in fishing in the crystal waters in Pareos Panhus on the island and feeds in light of fire on “Cerez Boason” (Carrie Fish) and “Calo”. Happy times with the horrors of his violent expulsion in the early 1970s and contracts from the poor exile that followed – did not survive many.

“There is no fight against. To heal the wound. This is still sighing,” is still sighing.

This line is severely hurt at the present time, as Mauritius is preparing for his assumption sovereignty On the Archipelago of Shaghus 60-visand after defeat UK In the case of ending colonialism in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) six years ago. The nation is on the edge of a knife because it awaits the final gesture from the United States, which wants to guarantee cast iron on the security of one of its most valuable bases on the island. Diego Garcia.

Mauritius was determined to restore Chagos for decades, after the United Kingdom with a strong weapon selling colonial lands that are jointly managed for 3 million pounds for its independence in 1968. It is said that the UK will pay the rent and the back of the back to the Garcia under the arrangement of the lease contract that It extends over 99 years.

In an attempt to recover from the past wounds, Mauritius will manage the Insation Fund for the Hagos, allowing them to resettle two Chaghus -Salomon and Perus Panhus. But the inhabitants of the island, who have roots on the eighteenth century region, were closed from the highway talks. As Bettist describes it, local families are torn by ranks about whether they should accept Mauritanian sovereignty over their homeland.

“It seems to be a war between two sides killing each other,” says Baptist. “We are already a small society. It makes me very sad.”

Marginalization

Karen Walter, Deputy Editor -in -Chief of the Mauritius Los Express newspaper, has followed the transformations and turns in bilateral negotiations in recent years, noting that the opinions of an estimated 10,000 Shaghusi are now scattered throughout the United Kingdom, Mauritius and Seychelles.

The marginalization of Shaghusian was clear during the past year election10 days after the UK announced and Mauritius announced that they had reached a political agreement on transportation. Former Prime Minister Bravind Gugnouth achieved the campaign’s path, as he was wandering in “billions of rupees” in the annual rent of Sigu Garcia and opportunities to build hotels on the archipelago – but many of them indicated that he did not mention the Shaghusi.

Since then Jugnaut has been replaced Navin RamgolamWho condemned his predecessor deal with the United Kingdom as a “sale”. Last Tuesday, Ramgolam told the Maurian parliament that his new team had re -negotiated the “inflation resistance” draft, which includes an unannounced “loaded” batch. It is very important for Mauritius, the new terminology is granted by cassation authorities for future extensions to arrange the 99 -year -old lease of Garcia.

Ramgolam said he was “confident” everything that will be completed “in the coming weeks.” Although US President Donald Trump has not yet weighed, as the right -wing people raised a panic pan With a lot of New Delhi from what it was in Beijing), the deal is still suspended in balance.

Ramgolam began the start of the legal leadership of sovereignty after WikiLeaks published an American diplomatic cable in 2010, and exposed a British plan to create a marine protected area in Chaghus that was aimed at washing the ban on the indigenous-or-“or” MAN FRIIYAIS “, and they were called by one official – Return to the homeland. Since then, the two Mauritanian sovereign causes have been twin on Shaghus and the Shajusi struggle for justice.

Perhaps victory in the International Court of Justice has been predicted to end the failed colonialism in the UK for Mauritius, but Shaghusi gave a knock out. Lycepe Ellis, Pyros Panhous Citizen, witnessed a testimony on a video, the amazing court told how she was crammed on the evacuation ship while she was carrying four months and lost her child upon arrival at Mauritius, and she swings to international opinion in favor of Mauritius.

Maurichian’s lawyer Robin Martmoto, who has long represented society, says Mauritius owes him by beating the International Court of Justice for the Tashajos. After “surfing” from the Shaghousi conflict, Mauritius now has a “golden opportunity” to do things in the right way and must insist that they have a place on the table.

Regardless of anything else, Chagossians is in a better position to hold the United Kingdom and the United States to the fire, especially when it comes to the appropriate compensation for the mistakes committed by the countries and the costs of the planned resettlement program, which is a huge project that includes building infrastructure, institutions and housing in the islands That was not touched by half a century. Mardemootoo says Mauritius does not have means.

“If Mauritius is not smart in this matter, he will inherit a group of islands without any way to rehabilitate them. This will continue, return and chase them.”

Time runs out

Olivier Bancolt, the leader of the Chaghos Refugee Group (CRG), asked Mardmootoo in his long battle to win the right to return in English stadiums. It received a historic victory in the Supreme Court in London in 2000, but the ruling was canceled with a new legislation four years later, amid the panic of the September 11 attacks in the United States.

After reaching a legal, legal road in the United Kingdom, the 60 -year -old Pyros Panhus chose to support Moretian. Although his group was excluded from the talks, he received regular surroundings from former and current prime ministers, with discussions that include Shaghusi’s participation in regional governance.

“They will provide resettlement. How can I oppose that even if it is not 100 percent satisfactory?” He says, speaking from his group’s headquarters in Pointe Aux Sables.

He believes that the time is running out of the first generation of Shaghusi like himself to achieve justice-the smallest of them is now 52, ​​while the oldest is 100.

He says, “They only hope to fulfill their dream.”

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Claudette Levad, the leader of Shaghus, wants a people (CAP) to drown Trump the deal. She is fighting for the self-determination of CHAGOSSSIAN under the British flag-even if the previous colonial power has taken society over and over again.

Lefade, who was also born in Pyrce Panhus, believes that the insurance box is supposed to be run by Mauritius according to the deal as a British summary to avoid the payment of appropriate compensation. The United Kingdom has already formed this front, after it failed to provide a promise in 2016 to distribute 40 million pounds ($ 49.7 million) to Chagossians worldwide.

But it suspects that Chagossians will worse under the Maurian rule, as the alleged mismanagement of the previous funds sent by the UK in 1972 and 1982 takes into account. Due to the lack of transparency regarding delivery, they are also afraid that groups that do not approach the government themselves will find themselves when it comes to the plans of insurance funds and insurance boxes.

exit

A recent report on L’Express covered the milling poverty that Chagossians witnessed in the coastal village of Baie-dubeau, where some still live in “Lakaz Tol”-corrugated iron homes. Walter says: “Poverty is blatant, some people can meet their needs, but some do not do it.”

On the street, people talk about “exit”, where Chagossians who struggle to take the United Kingdom to display the citizenship of all the original births and their grandchildren-late in 2022. Lefade says two groups worth 100 will leave 100 months.

The total numbers about the departures are not available, but the authorities in the town of Kraouli in the United Kingdom, the home of the Chaghusi 3500 community, reported a “noticeable increase” in the new arrivals last year.

The Baptists continue to obtain messages from his colleagues, Shaghusia, asking for help in applications. England can be considered “Boro” – a torture company – because of its mass deportation of its people, which the rights groups described as a “crime against humanity”, but it witnessed “youth and even families with children” who leave in an attempt to do so much.

Although she does not have plans to leave Mauritius, she gets it. She says that “Granboa”, who is 70 years old, will be “six feet under” if he had not left for Creley for about 15 years to get an operation on his heart. Now, her younger sister is looking to join him.

Jamal Kullen, a 46 -year -old MIME artist, is currently applying for British citizenship for himself and his 12 -year -old daughter, as he saw the UK as a better step for self -determination than Mauritius.

He hopes that the UK rental contract will be able to Diego Garcia Chagosians to obtain a foothold in the lands of their ancestors, as they can then share a claim to sovereignty as an original people.

He says: “I was born in exile, but I know where I came from and who I am.”

However, Bancoult CRG warns that seeking justice will become more difficult with the death of the first generation of the original islands. “It is more powerful when the indigenous people Chagusion talk about the mistake he made to them and what [governments] You should do to correct it. “

He believes that young children are looking for the UK for a solution to make a mistake. The UK government will say: “You are not without. I was born in Mauritius. I was born in the United Kingdom.

They will say: “We do not have to deal with you.”