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This will add to our crimes against these people: first, the detachment of their islands without affording them the dignity of self-determination, which ironically would almost certainly have mandated detachment from Mauritius; secondly, the forced removal of the peoples from their islands between 1968 and 1973; and, thirdly, the ongoing crime of keeping them out of their jurisdiction from 1973 until now, notwithstanding the fact that we are content to pay Mauritius more money to lease just one island than KPMG says it would take to resettle the islands. The final insult is the removal of the jurisdictional basis of their identity.