RTE News HeadlinesOct 3, 2024

[14:47] UK gives Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius

Britain said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but under what US President Joe Biden called a "historic agreement" will keep its strategic joint military base with the United States on Diego Garcia.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1003/1473402-uk-islands-mauritius/

#Britain #theChagosIslands #US #JoeBiden #theUnitedStates

Show threadGemma AbbottJan 9, 2023

#TheLastColony by #PhilippeSands is extraordinary. And I find myself wondering (once a legal campaigner, always a legal campaigner) what the plan is to force the next Govt to stop ignoring the rights of the Changossians - it will surely be much harder for Starmer et al to continue to ignore UN rulings to return #TheChagosIslands as May & her successors have done?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/14/the-last-colony-by-philippe-sands-review-britains-chagos-islands-shame

The Last Colony by Philippe Sands review – Britain’s Chagos Islands shame

The Chagossians were forced from their archipelago in the 1970s. Philippe Sands relates the wider tragedy of the scandal with nerve and precision

The Guardian