Indian Ocean
Chagos and the Dark Soul of the British Labour Party
Even if you think you know all about the Chagos story – an entire population forcibly removed from their island homeland at British gunpoint...
UN court rejects UK’s claim of sovereignty over Chagos Islands
Judges advise Britain that separating archipelago from Mauritius in 1960s was wrong
25 Feb 2019
The UK has been ordered to hand back the Chagos Islands...
UK used secret threats to keep Chagos Islands, court hears
Mauritius defence minister claims UK forced it to cede territory before independence
3 Sep. 2018
The UK has retained possession of a remote archipelago in the...
The truth about Diego Garcia
And 50 years of fiction about an American military base
by David Vine,
15 June 2015
First, they tried to shoot the dogs. Next, they tried...
Mauritius ruling a ‘tool’ for Cyprus on UK bases
February 25, 2019
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the status of the Chagos Islands (all times local):
9:10 p.m.
Cyprus’ attorney general says a...
US military logistics hub in Sri Lanka: duplicity and doublespeak
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
While Sri Lankan politicians were distracted by apower struggle between the president and prime minister in December, the world’s superpower pulled off...
Indian Ocean geopolitics behind Western diplomatic behavior in Sri Lanka
Jan.9, 2019
By LasandaKurukulasuriya
Sri Lanka’s seven-week political impasse towards the end of last year, caused by a clash between the executive and legislature, was resolved...
Sri Lanka: An urgent case for conflict prevention
By Jeffrey Feltman *
October 31, 2018
No one following Sri Lanka could pretend that the partnership forged in 2015 between President Maithripala Sirisena...
Sri Lanka’s parliamentary crisis and Western ‘concern’ for democracy
Sri Lanka’s legislature has been in disarray since 26th Oct. when President Maithripala Sirisena sacked his prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, replacing him with his...
Titlos Lettre de Colombo
Par Jean Pierre Page
Cet article ci dessous est à l’image de la campagne internationale des médias et de l’ingérence systématique des gouvernements occidentaux en...