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Listen up! Living on Chagos for many is possible
Friends of the British Overseas Territories (FOTBOT) launch a new resettlement plan they want parliamentarians to make happen
- THE CHAGOS FILES team
News: 18 March 2026
Chagossians to challenge secretive BIOT court
Harry Mayes, deputy editor, THE CHAGOS FILES reports on the secretive British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) court trying to keep Chagossians off the Chagos Islands
News: 13 March 2026
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the moral scandal of homeless Chagossians in Britain
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Meet Emma’s* Chagossian family. Her relatives originated from the Chagos Islands and Britain deported them by force. In mainland Britain the family was evicted from council-provided accommodation.
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THE CHAGOS FILES is our current journalism project investigating the UK Government’s undemocratic Chagos Islands sovereignty deal.
Sixty years ago the British government removed several thousand people living on The Chagos Islands, a British overseas territory in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Chagossian people and their families were taken against their will mainly to Mauritius, the Seychelles and the UK.
Since then those born on the islands and their descendants have been denied the democratic right to return to their homeland and to self-determination.
At a time of geopolitical realignment and changing ideology that increasingly ignores national boundaries and people's claims of sovereignty, THE CHAGOS FILES reveals the new ways governments frustrate the democratic demands of the Chagossian people.
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