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We were just women; there were no men at all in those days. When we did demonstrations, the police beat the men... so we decided to use a majority of women and a minority of men.

— Charlesia Alexis

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It’s no a compensation for the Chagossians. It’s not even a British person’s pay for one month.

My heart is full of sorrow/ See my child growing up/ See the children growing up/ Without knowing their mother’s native country

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