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Shifting Sands at Diego Garcia
The native Chagossian people are a mixture ... and established the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). This was done ...
To build a military base on Chagos’ largest island, Diego Garcia, the British forcibly displaced around 1,500 native islanders without compensation into slums in Mauritius and the Seychelles.
British navy ships rescued dozens and brought them to Diego Garcia, the largest of the disputed Chagos Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) – long claimed by Mauritius – and ...
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands ... Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, who were both born on Diego Garcia, have begun a bid to take the ...
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated ... located on the largest island, Diego Garcia.
and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the countries agreed that the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia will continue to operate whatever the results of the talks. Mauritius claims the remote ...