Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

At the same time the U.S. maintains it has a humanitarian duty to militarily intervene in other nations such as Serbia and Darfur to prevent ethnic cleansing, Britain engaged in its own form of ethnic cleansing of thousands of Indian Ocean Islanders from Diego Garcia, one of 64 coral islands of the Chagos Archipelago. No moral justification was given for the removal of these islanders. Instead, Britain cooperated with America to "sweep" and "sanitize" the islands to make it suitable for building an American military base (Pilger 1). A British High Court ruling criticized the behavior of previous British governments, opening a route for the islanders to return to Diego Garcia. However, the Foreign Officer circumvented the ru

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