First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

Many people native to the Chagos Islands were expelled in the Sixties and Seventies by the US and UK governments as they established an airbase on Diego Garcia.

In the decades that followed, all native people born on the Chagos Islands were forcibly expelled to the Seychelles or Mauritius to make way for UK and US military base activity.

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K. formally separated the islands from its then-colony Mauritius, before Mauritius gained independence three years later.

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia. Search Query Show Search. ... which forced thousands of people from their homes.