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What are the Chagos Islands, and why has the UK given them up?
What's behind the deal that's taken decades to negotiate?
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The recent announcement by the United Kingdom that it's set to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ends decades of often fractious negotiations between the two nations. The move also reignites one of the most shameful episodes in recent geopolitical history, that of the forced deportation of up to 2,000 Chagossians from their native land to make way for the construction of a joint US-UK military base. In signing over the islands, the UK has relinquished one of its very last vestiges of empire. But together with the United States, it keeps control of one of the most secretive and controversial armed forces installations in the world.
Where exactly are the Chagos Islands, and why has the UK given them up? Click through and revisit the history behind this significant announcement.
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