On February 15, Human Rights Watch released a report based on interviews conducted between November 2021 and September 2022 with Chagossians in Mauritius, the United Kingdom, and Seychelles. One main finding of the report was that many of the Chagossians who were forcibly displaced to Mauritius by the UK government to allow the US to build a military base on their island suffered, and still suffer, poverty, stigma, and discrimination a half century later.
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About 60 years ago, the United Kingdom government secretly planned, with the United States, to force an entire Indigenous people, the Chagossians, from their homes in the Chagos Archipelago. The Indian Ocean islands were part of Mauritius, then a UK colony. The two governments agreed that a US military base would be built on Diego Garcia, the largest of the inhabited Chagos islands, and the island’s inhabitants would be removed. The UK government split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, .