[HN Gopher] On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the B...
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       On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"
        
       Author : redbell
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2024-10-26 21:42 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ARandomerDude wrote:
       | Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling
       | place for demons.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
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       |  _UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729325 - Oct 2024 (282
       | comments)
       | 
       | Also:
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       |  _UK to hand over Chagos back to Mauritius_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463586 - Nov 2022 (52
       | comments)
        
         | zahlman wrote:
         | Thank you. I genuinely would have had no idea otherwise, why
         | this specific date.
        
       | marc_abonce wrote:
       | I didn't know about this until now, but this BBC article seems to
       | disagree with OP's Reddit post:
       | https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy78ejg71exo
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       | > One of the largest islands on the tropical atoll, Diego Garcia,
       | will remain a joint US-UK military base and is expected to remain
       | so for 99 years with an option to renew.
       | 
       | > Mauritius will be able to begin a programme of resettlement on
       | the Chagos Islands, but not on Diego Garcia.
       | 
       | So it seems like the military occupation will continue for at
       | least 99 years if not longer, and the still living Chagossian
       | islanders may never be allowed to return back home.
       | 
       | By the way, since this is a tech forum, it's worth pointing out
       | that every time you pay for a .io domain you're funding this
       | ongoing ethnic cleansing. BIOT is not a country, it has no
       | permanent population and is currently nothing but a military base
       | in a land that was completely ethnic cleansed in the 1970's.
        
       | mlindner wrote:
       | Every single one of these recent territorial handovers seems to
       | have gone poorly for the local residents, notable example being
       | Hong Kong. Not sure this is that good of an idea. This more seems
       | to be getting done to win international brownie points rather
       | than any other reason.
       | 
       | I'm also worried about possible interference in the use of Diego
       | Garcia. Letting non-military people on to the island is a
       | security risk. The news reporting talks about the military base
       | remaining "on the island", but the entire island is a military
       | base.
        
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