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Chagos: a 50-year-old crime

During the forced deporation in 1972, the islanders were scooped up, loaded on ships, and dumped on the waterfront of Port Louis in Mauritius, where most of them have lived in abject poverty ever since. But this month a number of them went back to the islands on a Mauritian ship.

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 62 coral atolls in the middle of the Indian Ocean, would make an ideal bomber base from which to dominate most of south Asia and eastern Africa, and in 1966, the Pentagon wanted it, writes Gwynne Dyer. Britain still insists it is the sovereign power on the islands (although it is the U.S. that runs them), but since the International Court of Justice ruled in 2019 that the whole expulsion of the islanders had been illegal it has been on the defensive. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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BY GWYNNE DYER
February 21, 2022

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