Chagos islanders cannot return home, says Supreme Court

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Source: BBC

Former residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their legal challenge to return.

Families left the Indian Ocean islands in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Air Force base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the group of islands.
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Information about the feasibility study was not disclosed before the decision was made, the islanders said.

But the five justices dismissed the islanders' appeal by a majority of three to two - the same numerical split as the Law Lords in 2008.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36659976

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This is one of the most shameful acts by Britain in recent years. It's old style colonialism.