Chagos Islands

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21 hours agoOfficials planted the red blue yellow and green flag of Mauritius on the Peros Banhos atoll in the Chagos Islands whose residents were expelled by Britain half a century ago to make way for a U. Officially part of the British Indian Ocean Territory the Chagos were home to the Chagossians for more than a century and a half.

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A boat sent by the government of Mauritius has arrived in the disputed Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean after the country accused the occupying British authorities of crimes against humanity.

. Despite concerted opposition from both the UK and US Mauritius has won a string. 1 day agoMauritius measures reef hoping to lay claim on Chagos Islands. 1 day agoThe Mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands an Indian Ocean archipelago controlled by Britain but claimed.

Why is the Chagos Archipelago so important. This article was most recently revised and updated by Lorraine Murray. Sadly though they also were not only a former British colony but also occupied some prime Cold War real estate.

Chagos islanders in emotional historic trip home. The UK evicted them in the early 1970s and allowed the USA to build a military base on. The United Nations highest court has ruled that Britains occupation of the islands is illegal but Britain has refused.

Military could build an air base on. Chagos Islands once home to a native population known as Ilois or Chagossians lies in the Indian Ocean approximately 500 kilometers south of the Maldives. MP representing most of UKs Chagossians says failure to use compensation money to help those facing hardship is.

21 hours agoOfficials planted the red blue yellow and green flag of Mauritius on the Peros Banhos atoll in the Chagos Islands whose residents were expelled by Britain half a century ago to make way for a U. Because many different forms of life call it home from the coral reefs to the various species that live on more than 55 islands. Currently the sovereignty of the Chagos.

It consists of five atolls including The Great Chagos Bank - the largest atoll in the world. The United Kingdom separated them from Mauritius in 1965 and leased the islands to the United States to set up the Diego. A photo taken in 1971 shows residents of Diego Garcia receiving the news that the entire population of the Chagos Islands would be deported towards Mauritius and Seychelles to make way for a new.

The native population were deported by the British governement in the late sixties and early seventies to fulfill the terms of a leasing agreement to depopulate the islands initally a communication centre later to became. Chagos Archipelago island group in the central Indian Ocean located about 1000 miles 1600 km south of the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. 23 hours agoSeveral Chagos islanders accompanied Mauritian officials on a voyage that also involved a scientific survey of a nearby coral reef.

Some moved to the Seychelles and to Britain where many. Most of the population of the Chagos Islands was dumped unceremoniously and without compensation in Mauritius 1000 miles to the south. Britain evicted about 2000 residents in the 1960s and 70s so the US.

2 days agoIt is just 217 sq m 561 sq kms in area with more than half of the land being taken up by Diego Garcia the largest of the Chagos Islands. 1 day agoThe Chagos Islands have been at the centre of a decades-long dispute. Small earthquakes are frequent in and around the archipelago but even though low-lying the Chagos Islands are not thought to.

All sounds very wonderful so far right. It is coterminous with the British Indian Ocean Territory. Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth was quoted as.

An undated file photo shows Diego Garcia the largest island in the Chagos archipelago. The Chagos Islands also known as the Chagos Archipelago formerly Bassas de Chagas is a group of 7 tropical atolls making up 60 tropical islands located in the Indian Ocean. Between 1967 and 1973 the UK evicted the islands entire population to make way for a joint military base with the US which is still in place on.

The Chagos Archipelago is made up of over 55 islands. The Great Chagos Bank is the most noted of the geographical features as it is the worlds largest coral atoll. 1 day agoThe flag of Mauritius has been planted in the British colony of the Chagos islands in the boldest move yet by the Indian Ocean state to assert its.

The Chagos Islands is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated some 500 km due south of the Maldives. This is a very. 2 days agoThe trip is the culmination of years of tug-of-war legal battles with Britain over ownership of the Chagos Islands.

Just 12000 of 40m fund for displaced Chagos islanders has been spent. In a phone call to the Guardian shortly after the flag was raised the Mauritian prime minister said. 23 hours agoChagos Islands.

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