1968 CE–1973 CE
Chagossians are removed to make way for a military base
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · War & conquest · Law & imperial government · Migration & diaspora
British authorities prevented returns and removed Chagos’s population, mainly to Mauritius and Seychelles, while closing plantations and enabling a US base on Diego Garcia. Official documents falsely characterized permanent inhabitants as transient workers; displacement and its intergenerational harms remain the subject of litigation and protest
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