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UK actions over Chagos Islands ‘crimes against humanity’, says rights group

Chagossians have spent decades fighting to return to the islands after being forced to leave in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a military base.

The Independent UK

Negotiations on Chagos Islands’ sovereignty face legal challenge

Pre-action letter says talks between UK and Mauritius ‘being held without consulting Chagossian people’

The Guardian - UK

UK, Mauritius open talks on sovereignty of disputed Chagos Archipelago

Britain and Mauritius have begun talks aimed at ending a decades-old spat over the legal status of the Chagos Islands, whose population was forcibly cleared in the late 1960s to allow the building of a joint UK-US military installation.

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Why Britain should immediately withdraw from Mauritius' Chagos Islands

Britain is on the cusp of decolonising Mauritius – again. The first attempt at decolonisation took place in 1968 but went unfulfilled when London kept hold of an island group that had long been regarded as Mauritian territory: the Chagos Archipelago.

The Conversation

UK agrees to negotiate with Mauritius over handover of Chagos Islands

Foreign secretary indicates major reversal of policy that could allow return of people expelled by Britain in 1970s

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan

UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed country

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: Gary Lineker sewage remarks kick up stink at the BBC

In today’s Diary: BBC colleague bashes Gary Lineker’s tweets / Why the French will like Chagos Islands book / What next for Matt Hancock? / Hugh Bonneville’s latest villain / William Orbit to make noise in Venice

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The Last Colony by Philippe Sands review – Britain’s Chagos Islands shame

The Chagossians were forced from their archipelago in the 1970s. Philippe Sands relates the wider tragedy of the scandal with nerve and precision

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees detained by UK on Chagos Islands go on hunger strike

Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK military

The Guardian - UK

How the controversial nationality and borders bill may help people from Chagos Islands and Hong Kong

The nationality and borders bill has been widely condemned as the continuation of a decade-long, Conservative-led immigration regime set on demonstrating that the UK is “tough on immigration”. It has been dubbed the “hostile environment” policy.

The Conversation

Chagos Islands descendants can apply to become British nationals

New route offers children of those born on islands right to be British overseas territory citizens or British citizens

The Guardian - UK

Mauritius challenges UK rights over Indian Ocean domain name

Right to license .io address being challenged on grounds Britain no longer has legitimate claim to Chagos Islands

The Guardian - UK

How the US and UK worked together to recolonise the Chagos Islands and evict Chagossians

On 15 February 2022 the Mauritian flag was raised on two Indian Ocean atolls, Peros Banos and Salomon, both belonging to the Chagos archipelago. This was the first time that Mauritius’ flag was raised in the Chagos Islands, even though there is clear evidence that these 60 islands form part…

The Conversation

Chagos: a 50-year-old UK-US crime

'The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours.... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls," wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in…

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The Guardian - UK

Mauritius asks Google to label Chagos Islands as part of its territory

Row breaks out over Google Maps definition as UK insists it still maintains sovereignty

The Conversation

Britain's ownership of the Chagos islands has no basis, Mauritius is right to claim them

The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still exists today. It is long past time for this colonial-era wrongdoing to be made right, and for…

The Independent UK

UK firm on Chagos Islands claim after Mauritius plants flag

Britain has reaffirmed its sovereignty over a remote Indian Ocean archipelago after Mauritius underlined its own territorial claim by planting a flag on the islands

Wales Online

UK 'in no doubt' over Chagos Islands after Mauritius plants flag

The UK has had sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1814

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The Guardian - UK

Mauritius formally challenges Britain’s ownership of Chagos Islands

Mauritian ambassador to UN raises country’s flag above atoll of Peros Banhos

The Guardian - UK

‘I will be free’: excitement grows as cruise ship nears Chagos Islands

Exiles intend to plant Mauritian flag on land UK claims as part of British Indian Ocean Territory

The Guardian - UK

Mauritius warns UK firm over ‘Nemo’ coins in Chagos Islands dispute

Surrey-based Pobjoy Mint accused of violating international law by producing fish-decorated currency

The Guardian - UK

‘Life was lovely’: Chagossian women head home 50 years after forced exile

Women on Mauritian-chartered vessel bound for Chagos Islands recall how life there was ‘paradise’

The Independent UK

Mauritius presses claim versus UK for Indian Ocean islands

A delegation from Mauritius set sail Tuesday to the Chagos Islands to press the country’s claim for the strategically important Indian Ocean archipelago, which is also claimed by Britain and is home to an American military base

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