The sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands will be handed over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute. But the British establishment has long understood that people there who were evicted from their homes were treated unfairly.
There has long been an understanding within the British establishment that the Chagossians who were forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for a military base on Diego Garcia were treated unfairly. Human rights groups have demanded reparations and resettlement, while Britain's moral case for its control over the islands has dwindled on the international stage.
Jonathan Powell, the envoy who helped secure the sovereignty deal, said the Chagossians were treated 'shamefully' when they were removed from the islands. Mauritius will now be free to resettle Chagossians, some of whom now live in Britain. However, no resettlement will take place on Diego Garcia, where the military base will remain on a 99-year-long lease.
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