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What do you guys think about Noam Chomsky?
I didn't hear that it was completely razed to the ground,I read it was damaged a bit by a nearby bombing.
I didn't hear that it was completely razed to the ground,I read it was damaged a bit by a nearby bombing.
It is a bit much calling it a 'nation'. Reality is, it was an agricultural plantation to process dried coconuts. It was a private property of a business and later ceded to U.K. by a money transaction.Ah yes.. the ethnic cleansing of a nation is always minor event in Anglo-Saxon circles. Thanks for confirming you're wrong.
In 1966, the population of the island was 924.These people were employed as contract farm workers primarily on copra plantations owned by the Chagos-Agalega company. Although local plantation managers commonly allowed pensioners and the disabled to remain in the islands and continue to receive housing and rations in exchange for light work, children after the age of 12 were required to work. In 1964, only 3 of a population of 963 were unemployed. In April 1967, the BIOT Administration bought out Chagos-Agalega for £600,000, thus becoming the sole property owner in the BIOT. The Crown immediately leased back the properties to Chagos-Agalega but the company terminated the lease at the end of 1967. |
So small population = no right to a country?How much of a population existed in British mandated Palestine? Not much.