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Chagos Islands

July 2024

  • Birdseye view of the island

    US blocks UK from holding court hearing in British territory Diego Garcia

    Authorities refused to grant access for judge and legal teams to visit island, where dozens of Tamil asylum seekers are stranded
  • The British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

    Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

    In 2021, 60 Tamils were fleeing Sri Lanka for Canada when their boat sprang a leak. They were taken to Diego Garcia by the British navy. Three years later, they remain there in desperate, dangerous limbo
  • Protesters from the Chagos Islands rally in Parliament Square, London, in 2021.

    Britain’s new government should resume Chagos Islands negotiations

    Letter: Provision needs to be made for resettlement of the territory and its return to Mauritian sovereignty, writes David Snoxell

June 2024

  • USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia.<br>The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. The territory comprises a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual islands, situated some 500 kilometers (310 mi) due south of the Maldives archipelago. The largest island is Diego Garcia (area 44 km squared), the site of a joint military facility of the United Kingdom and the United States. Following the eviction of the native population (Chagossians) in the 1960s, the only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 4,000 (2004 figures). (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    It’s not just Windrush scandal Labour will have to confront, what about Chagos?

  • Relemay Fabula Gan (left) and Saddam Ali (right).

    Migrant workers ‘fear for their safety’ after deaths on Diego Garcia

May 2024

  • British Indian Ocean Territory islanders gather in Parliament Square in London in September 2021.

    Chagos Islanders fear loss of identity as birth certificates altered to remove disputed homeland

    Birthplace and parents’ names are being removed from passports and birth certificates as Mauritius stakes claim to the island

April 2024

  • A joint UK-US military facility on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands.

    Britain must develop a partnership of equals with Africa

    Letter: Former UK diplomat Tim Cole calls for a radical reset of UK foreign policy based on honesty and respect

January 2024

  • Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago.

    Chagos islanders stunned as David Cameron rules out return

    Statement from British foreign secretary comes just months after his predecessor confirmed resettlement was part of talks with Mauritius

November 2023

  • Saddam Ali, who died on Diego Garcia in October 2023. His body has not yet been repatriated.

    Family still wait for return of migrant worker’s body after unexplained death on UK-US military base

    Relatives allege American contractor on island of Diego Garcia failed to get proper medical help for 33-year-old Saddam Ali

October 2023

  • Satellite view of Diego Garcia

    Liz Truss wanted to bring stranded Tamil asylum seekers to UK, documents show

    Then foreign secretary said in 2022 there was a ‘credible threat of mass suicide’ from group stuck on Diego Garcia

September 2023

  • An undated file photo of Diego Garcia

    Tamil refugees on Diego Garcia win fight against forcible return to Sri Lanka

    British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challenge

March 2023

  • Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands

    Britain grants Tamil asylum seekers rescued at sea ‘safe-country’ move

    Two people, from group rescued by Royal Navy and held on Diego Garcia, made offer while receiving medical attention in Rwanda

February 2023

  • Chagossians protesting, seven years ago, outside the High Court, London

    Chagos islanders must get full reparations for forced exile, says NGO

    Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of Chagossians

January 2023

  • Officials raise the Mauritian flag above an atoll on the Chagos Islands.

    Negotiations on Chagos Islands’ sovereignty face legal challenge

  • Mauritian leader, Pravind Jugnauth

    Chagos Islanders demand say as UK-Mauritius sovereignty talks begin

November 2022

  • A 2015 protest in London against the depopulation of the Chagos archipelago.

    UK agrees to negotiate with Mauritius over handover of Chagos Islands

  • A demonstration takes place outside a migrant holding facility at Manston Airfield.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Home Office threatened with legal action over ‘unlawfully detained’ migrants at Manston – as it happened

October 2022

  • Diego Garcia base.

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

  • Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands, which the UK calls the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).

    UK accused of putting Tamil refugees at risk in Indian Ocean

September 2022

  • Beach

    Evicted Chagos Islanders’ descendants to get British citizenship

    Home Office announces applications for children of those forcibly evicted by the British in 1970s will open in November
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