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The Mauritius Yellow Pages News - Right Group Wants Independent Police Complaints Bureau |
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Posted to the web April 17, 2001 |
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April 02, 2001 - Port Louis, Mauritius, Indian Ocean |
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The Mauritian branch of the Southern African
Human Rights network (SAHRINGON), has called for the creation of an
independent Police Complaints bureau in Mauritius.
Dick Ng Sui Wa, the group's legal counsellor, said Sunday that the bureau should help tackle cases of alleged police brutality on the island during the past years. Some 117 of such cases were registered from 1999. On the Chagos archipelago problem, Shyam Redha, national Co-ordinator of SAHRINGON, said the group would support the Mauritian government's stand on the island of Diego Garcia, 1200- km north of Mauritius. "We will also support the struggle of those Chagossians living in Seychelles, who have no nationality," he said. According to him, the history of Chagossians is "the violation of fundamental human rights and the right to go back home." Thousands of Chagossians were displaced to pave way for the building of a military base decades ago.
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