States committed illegal acts to expel stateless persons whom no country would accept
Evidence
Once British officials had agreed and base construction appeared imminent, any Chagossians who left Chagos after 1967 for medical treatment or a routine vacation in Mauritius were barred from returning home. Agents for the steamship company that connected the islands told the travelers that their islands had been sold and that they could never return. The Chagossians were marooned in Mauritius, separated from many of their family members and almost all their possessions. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 180 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The nation-state’s inability to protect the stateless lets persecutors impose their values; The inability to treat stateless people as legal persons threatens all citizens’ legal equality; Deprivation of rights compounds irreversibly once a person is rendered stateless (+7 more)
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Broader Connections
- Chagossians traveling abroad were deliberately barred from returning home
#exemplifies(0.80) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 180 - The inability to treat stateless people as legal persons threatens all citizens’ legal equality
#expands(0.78) - Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government
#expands(0.75) - Minority treaties could single out groups for expulsion rather than protect them
#exemplifies(0.75) - A 1982 citizenship law legally excluded and delegitimized Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
#exemplifies(0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 132 - Deprivation of rights compounds irreversibly once a person is rendered stateless
#complicates(0.72) - The Chinese Exclusion Act barred ethnic Chinese from citizenship and immigration
#exemplifies(0.72) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 745 - Colonial paranoia about French emissaries produced a decree expelling immigrants
#exemplifies(0.72)