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and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the US military could build the Diego Garcia base.

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s the UK evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the US military could build the Diego Garcia base.

Chagossian people – many of whom were expelled ... Mauritian relations using the issue of sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago as a conflict generator’. They may well have succeeded.