General News 3: 'What about justice?': Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

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General News 3: 'What about justice?': Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

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Decades after the US took over the territory for a military base, families separated and forced to leave their homes are still waiting for compensationWhen Laurenza Piron was forced from her home in the Chagos Islands in 1970, she was sent on a boat to the Seychelles. Her parents and siblings were sent to Mauritius. It was two decades before they located one another again, and even then none of them could afford a reunion. So Piron, now 76, never saw her family again.“I wanted...

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