20 ORGANIZATIONS explained why we were marching in the streets of Port Louis on Friday?
05.04.2025
Our demands
CLOSE U.S. MILITARY BASE on DIEGO GARCIA !
STOP THE GENOCIDE !
Platform for the Peaceful Street March
* Close the military base on Diego Garcia
* Amend the Constitution to abolish foreign military bases from our country
* Britain and USA must pay rent arrears from Independence in 1968 to date of base closure, and pay reparations to Chagossians for the harm they suffered in their forcible removal, and to the Republic of Mauritius for prolonged illegal military occupation of so much of Mauritius’ land and sea
* Oppose the genocide that the state of Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians * Denounce the USA and others that supply arms, money and diplomatic cover for Israel* Support S. African case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for genocide * Support the Palestinian people against military occupation and colonization they have endured since 1948, in line with the 2024 ICJ judgment.
Our aim is to contribute towards ensuring:
- our territory is not used for either war nor genocide
- effective exercise of Mauritian sovereignty over the whole of Chagos.
- that the military base on our land no longer represents a permanent threat of war
- the land for which we are responsible is not ever again used for illegal imprisonment or torture
- that Chagossians have the right to return to the Island most of them came from, Diego Garcia, as well as all the other Chagos Islands, and all Mauritians have the right of free movement, over the whole of Mauritian territory
- that Mauritius is not in violation of the Pelindaba Treaty for a Nuclear Arms Free Africa to which we are a signatory
- an end to the “military base pollution” and make possible a proper Marine Protected Area there
- that our country does not become the target for dangerous retaliation if war is waged from our territory
- that we people, enjoy our “sovereign democratic state”, as enshrined in Section 1 of the Constitution of Mauritius.
- that we help ensure peace on the basis of international law and justice.
Mauritius Labour Congress, Haniff Peerun
Federation of Parastatal Bodies and Other unions, Deepak Benydin
Conf. des Travailleurs des Secteurs Publique et Privé, Reeaz Chuttoo
National Trade union Confederation, Narendranath Gopee
Federation of Civil Service and Other unions, Vinesh Sewsurn
General Workers Federation, Clency Bibi
Federation des Travailleurs Unis, Atma Shanto
Rodrigues Private Industries & Allied Workers union, Jocelin Louis
Rodrigues Government Employees Association, Julienne Meunier
Rodrigues Workers Federation, Marie Antoinette Casimir
Nurses’ union, Vidhata Jeewuth.
Nursing Association, Ram Nowzadick
union of Private Secondary Education Employees, Dain Jahajeeah
Ledikasyon pu Travayer, Lindsey Collen
Dr Idrice Goomany Treatment Centre, Norman Tambanivoul
Leve Fam! Danielle Turner
Muvman Liberasyon Fam, Rajni Lallah
ABAIM, Marousia Bouvery,
Never Again-Olive Resistance, Tania Haberland
Lalit, Alain Ah Vee
Signed by Alain Ah Vee, co-ordinating for the Collective, c/o 1A La Croix Street, Forest Side. 4 April 2025
