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The Foreign Desk

No place like home

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15 July 2017

Episode 184

30 minutes


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In 1965 the UK separated the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, from Mauritius to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. Everyone living there was evicted and they have been fighting to return ever since. After a vote in the UN referred the matter to the International Court of Justice, is now the time for Chagossians to return home?

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