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by Y_Y 1252 days ago
To be fair the just scooped the Chagossians out, whereas ethnic cleansing usually refers to extermination. Those who ended up in the UK have been fighting a legal battle since and seem to be making slow progress. From the British point of view it was a slam dunk, since they didn't care about the "man Fridays" and they got trident missiles in return.
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You may want to check your definitions. This is a clear example of ethnic cleansing and should not be minimized just because it isn't literal genocide.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethnic_cleansing

Oh shit you caught me