Expulsion, Exile & Extra Time

The dispute between Mauritius and the United Kingdom over ownership of the Chagos archipelago has been an ongoing conflict lasting decades. Between 1967 and 1973, around 2,000 Indigenous Chagossians were controversially displaced from their tropical paradise homes to make way for Diego Garcia - a US military base on one of the Chagos Islands. In 2019 the UK's occupation of the Chagos Islands was ruled unlawful by the International Court of Justice and, in 2021, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) stated that Britain had "no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands" and that the islands should be reinstated to Mauritius.