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UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s purpose is to ensure that the US’s military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean can continue to operate unimpeded. It also appears that London has dropped plans to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, citing “concerns” over its relations with China.
As the case moves to the next stage, their voices must be central in the case that Canada and the Netherlands have put before the Court.
In his latest book, lawyer Philippe Sands exposes Britain’s hypocrisy in its treatment of the Chagos islanders
Philippe Sands’s new book combines the story of the Chagos islanders, who were forced to leave their homeland by the British Government in the 1960s and 70s, with the surprisingly gripping narrative of how the international legal institutions put in place after the Second World War gradually came to grips with their case. Review by Joyce McMillan
When Olivier Bancoult, Liseby Elysé, Suzelle Baptiste, Rosemonde Bertin and Marcel Humbert set off on the Bleu de Nîmes for the Chagos archipe