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Ads by Google Related Topics Bismarck Archipelago Sulu Archipelago Malay Archipelago Chagos Archipelago Stockholm archipelago Tuamotu Archipelago Japanese Archipelago      The Head Heeb: Back to BIOT The Chagos archipelago was administered as part of Mauritius before being split off to form BIOT in 1965, and successive Mauritian governments have claimed that the creation of BIOT violated the principle of uti possidetis or sanctity of colonial borders. The Chagos islands are in no more danger than other low-lying Indian Ocean islands, and their long-term habitability (not to mention their suitability for long-term naval occupation) has never previously been called into question. The most tragicomic aspect of the latest Chagos fiasco, however, is how unnecessary it all is. There is no rational reason for the United States or Britain to oppose the ilois resettling in the islands other than Diego Garcia, most of which are hundreds of miles from the USN base. http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/025488.html   (1174 words)      com001 OAU threatens reconciliation pact on Comoros Mauritius is engaged in sovereignty conflicts with Britain (over the Chagos Archipelago) and France (over Île Tromelin), and faces the possibility of a secessionist movement by the Chagossians, if these win their claims against the British government. The Chagos refugees have filed a law suit against the British Government, claiming the illegality of their eviction from their home islands from 1965 and onwards. One major excuse of the British government always has been that the islands were inhabitable, and thus could not serve the forcefully evacuated ex-inhabitants of Chagos (now refugees on Mauritius) for a supposed return. http://www.afrol.com/News/mas003_chagos_anjouan.htm   (2165 words)      Chagos Islanders v. Attorney General By mid 1985, the Chagos Refugee Group, amongst the leaders of which was Olivier Bancoult, were contending that the Ilois had been exiled through coercion, in violation of their human rights; they continued to claim that the compensation was inadequate. This interest was in the way in which the continued right of Mauritian citizens to return to the Chagos islands could be used as a means of asserting Mauritius' entitlement to the islands when the defence interests ceased. The claim form seeks: (i) compensation and restoration of their property rights, in respect of their unlawful removal or exclusion from the Chagos islands by the Defendants; and, (ii) declarations of their entitlement to return to all Chagos islands and to measures facilitating their return. http://www.uniset.ca/naty/2003EWHC2222.htm   (15658 words)      CampusProgress.org Expelled From Home The expulsion was the result of secret negotiations between the American and British governments, which began in 1964, to establish a U.S. military facility in the Indian Ocean. When American and British press got word of the story, British officials deflected criticism, arguing that the Chagossians were little more than contract workers with no ties to the islands, when in fact, Chagossians had been on the islands for five generations since being brought there as slaves. Over the last 30 years, only a handful of media outlets, few of which could be considered mainstream, have ever covered Chagos. http://www.campusprogress.org/features/615/expelled-from-home   (1372 words)      Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (IM0125) Chagos is part of British Indian Ocean Territory, though the Seychelles disputes this, also claiming Diego Garcia Island. It is believed that humans have been living on the islands of this archipelago as early as the 5 Some islands in this region of the Indian Ocean could conceivably disappear into the sea as a result of global warming. http://worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0125_full.html   (2094 words)      Diego Garcia - Naturalist's Paradise The book is a compilation of the reports done by the members of the 1996 expedition to the Chagos Archipelago (about 20 scientists), who studied the reefs, the weather, the insects, the pollution, the nesting seabirds, etc., etc., of the islands, especially those northwest of DG. Considering the extreme difficulties inherent in mounting an non-military expedition to the Chagos, its amazing that there have actually been several, and this book also takes in data from those expeditions, and relates it to the current state of affairs. First, this review is not a peer review, and I apologize to the dedicated scientists who wrote the book for any criticism I might have - far be it from me to evaluate any scholarly work. http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/nature4.html   (1090 words)      BBC NEWS Africa Mauritius stakes claim for Chagos The archipelago of 60 small islands has many natural resources and officials say that use of the islands would be key to Mauritius' future development. The tiny island of Mauritius appears to be moving forward with its claim of sovereignty over the British territory of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean. But for fear of disrupting diplomatic ties with its former colonial power, Britain, Port Louis has never made a formal claim for them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/3583927.stm   (463 words)      [No title] Plaintiffs assert that Defendant United States denies Plaintiffs access to the entire Chagos Archipelago while non-Chagossian vacationers are allowed to stay on the outer islands of the Archipelago for extended periods. In 1965, at the request of the U.S. Government, the U.K. detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and included the islands in the newly formed British Indian Ocean Territory (“BIOT”). For these reasons, Defendant United States’ argument that the Chagossian Plaintiffs do not meet the traceability and redressability elements of a standing inquiry is founded on false or, at a minimum, incomplete information. http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bancoult-d58.html   (3070 words)      British Indian Ocean Territory France, which had already colonised Réunion in the middle of the seventeenth century, claimed Mauritius in 1775, having sent its first settlers there in 1772; it subsequently took possession of the Seychelles group and the islands of the Chagos Archipelago. However, since the 1980s, successive Mauritian governments have asserted a sovereignty claim to the islands, arguing that they were detached illegally. After the British Indian Ocean Territory had been created, the UK Government gave Mauritius an undertaking to cede the Chagos islands to Mauritius when they were no longer required for defence purposes. http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/flags/io.html   (768 words)      ATOPIA: Lost Paradise From 1973 to the present, they have asked to return to their homeland and asked for monetary compensation in order to survive and adapt themselves to the Mauritian Society. Professor Carlson Anyangwe, an international Human Rights Law Expert, classifies this depopulation of the islands as a "mass deportation". Provide legal power to deport people who would not leave voluntarily; b. http://atopia.tk/vanish/chagos.htm   (2599 words)      3. november 2000 I found the flavour of these documents a little odd; it is as if some of the officials felt that if they willed it hard enough, they might bring about the desired result, and there would be no such permanent population. On at least some of the islands there lived in the 1960s a people called the Ilois. To provide legal power to deport people who will not leave voluntarily; http://www.dikepublishers.com/dansk/diego_garcia/RCJ031100.html   (13613 words)      Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department Until the 1996 Expedition it had been thought that the Chagos too had escaped the worst effects of the worldwide collapse of shark stocks, as a result of its isolation. This abundance of sharks at the Chagos in the 1970s has been previously reported by Bellamy (1979) and Sheppard (1990). Since then, an agreement between the governments of Britain and Mauritius (which has a political claim on the Chagos) has allowed Mauritian reef fishermen to operate in the archipelago under licence. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/ichthyology/organizations/ssg/sharknews/sn10/shark10news1.htm   (1941 words)      Chagosians/Ilois The British government claimed that the removal of the culture from Chagos Island was unlawful, and should never have been allowed to happen. "Britannica.com." World: The Secret Deal for the Chagos Islands; (November 7, 2000) http://www.britannica...article/print. Tthe Islanders from the tiny Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean won the right in British court to return to their homeland 30 years after they were forcibly removed. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/chagosians.html   (552 words)      The Head Heeb: The case of Chagos The Chagos islanders' claims have some very familiar overtones, including a claim that their existence as a people was denied: One way in which their experience does parallel the Palestinians', though, is that some Mauritian politicians have discouraged them from compromising their right to return in order to keep alive Mauritius' claim to the archipelago. But he said that their legal claims for compensation for personal injury suffered during their eviction and resettlement in Mauritius and Seychelles in the 1960s and 1970s were stale and were now time-barred. http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/016723.html   (6351 words)      Irina Malenko: Inhabitants of Chagos Archipelago deported by Great Britain 30 years ago demand ... Inhabitants of Chagos Archipelago deported by Great Britain 30 years ago demand return to their motherland In the West, they like to speak about Stalin’s deportations of Soviet people. The British newspaper The Times reports that hundreds of persons from Chagos, who were deported from the archipelago 30 years ago, started a round-the-clock protest before the British Supreme Commission at Mauritius until they will be allowed to return home. http://english.pravda.ru/world/2001/11/15/21042.html   (713 words)      University of Minnesota Human Rights Library Mauritius has never relinquished its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and has, ever since this unlawful excision, consistently and persistently pressed the United Kingdom Government both in bilateral and multilateral forums for the early and unconditional return of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. Whenever the Chagos issue has been raised, Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom has maintained that sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago will revert to Mauritius when the military facility on Diego Garcia is no longer needed for the defence of the West. The Chagos Archipelago had always been under the administrative rule of Mauritius until its unlawful excision by the then colonial power. http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/hrcommittee/mauritius2002.html   (610 words)      Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank To receive a share of this money, each Chagossians had to sign a waiver, renouncing any claim he or she had to the Chagos Archipelago. The British and American governments, claim that the Chagos Archipelago never had any permanent residents. Thirty years ago, the people of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their lands. http://www.hri.ca/tribune/viewArticle.asp?ID=2434   (549 words)      phorum - Breaking News - CHAGOS ISLANDS, AN INDIAN OCEAN ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLE: (Maureen) eng CHAGOS ISLANDS, AN INDIAN OCEAN ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLE: (Maureen) eng phorum - Breaking News - CHAGOS ISLANDS, AN INDIAN OCEAN ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLE: (Maureen) eng By the time the UK assumed sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in the early 1800s, the Chagossian People had already inhabited the territory for a number of generations after they had been brought there as slaves by the French. http://www.zabalaza.net/phorum/read.php?f=2&i=329&t=329   (730 words)      Untitled Document The Colony of Mauritius which had comprised, inter alia, the Chagos Archipelago is granted independence but without Chagos. Most are placed on the other Chagos Islands of Peros Banos and Salomon. Chagos Refugees Group and their legal advisor, Robin Mardaymootoo sue the US State, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and US corporations for damages, for torture and genocide. http://www.lalitmauritius.com/kronoloziprufrid.htm   (1673 words)      Island Vulnerability, Overseas Territories, United Kingdom The Chagossians were called "Tarzans or Man Fridays" in one internal memo from diplomat Dennis Greenhill and lies were told to parliament and the United Nations about the Chagossians' history of inhabiting the islands. These battles, claimed to be for issues such as freedom and justice, use an island from which the population was illegally evicted, treated shamefully, and refused the right to return. Chagossians took the UK government to court in London to obtain a ruling that their eviction was illegal and that they have a right to return. http://www.islandvulnerability.org/otuk.html   (4725 words)      World History Archives: The contemporary political history of the Chagos Archipelago World History Archives: The contemporary political history of the Chagos Archipelago Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright. Prime minister Anerood Jugnauth seeks international support for the return of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/36/index-eib.html   (225 words)      Dirty work in the Indian Ocean As the British discovered in the 19th century, whoever controlled the Chagos Archipelago controlled the Indian Ocean. The United States Join Chiefs-of-Staff first sought the Chagos Archipelago island of Diego Garcia as a base as early as 1959, and persuaded the British to hive off the island, and other atolls and islands in the archipelago, from Mauritius prior to independence. Mauritius attempted, on a number of occasions (the last time in 1991), to raise the issue of returning the islands and atolls of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, but without success. http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may98/indocean.html   (1331 words)      A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Green: Gulf of Kutch and Saurashtra Peninsula in India; uninhabited islands in Laccadives, Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago. The development of a MPA has the support of the government of Maharashtra and the national government (Dwivedi, Singh, and Ivan 1994) and should be implemented. The Mergui Archipelago lies off the southern coast of Myanmar and consists of over 800 islands; two other groups of islands are found in Burmese waters, one extending from the Andaman and Nicobar islands to the mainland coast, and another lying off the northern coast. http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa/nrsmpa/global/volume3/chapter10.html   (12019 words)      Diego Garcia "Camp Justice" The island's name is believed to have come from either the ship's captain or the navigator on that early voyage of discovery. The island is one of 52 in the Chagos Archipelago, which extends over an area of 10,000 square miles. It is the largest of fifty-two islands which form the Chagos Archipelago, located in the heart of the Indian Ocean. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/diego-garcia.htm   (3163 words)      Letter from the Permanent Mission We would appreciate if you could arrange for this letter to be circulated as an official document of the United Nations under item 5 of the Sub-Commission's agenda. Ever since, the Government of Mauritius has consistently pressed the United Kingdom Government both bilaterally and internationally for the early and unconditional return of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. The Chagos Archipelago was unlawfully excised by the United Kingdom from the territory of Mauritius, prior to Mauritius being granted its independence. http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/4d59aaa9d48e4204c1256ae100461db1?Opendocument   (275 words)      MAURITIUS: ‘Close Diego Garcia! Close all US bases!' To make way for the US base, Britain deported — forcibly — these people from where the lands on which they had been born and had lived their whole lives, where their parents had been born and where their ancestors were buried. Seegobin is a long-time leader of Lalit (which means “struggle” in Mauritian Kreol), a revolutionary socialist party that has played a leading role in the struggle to have the illegally excised Chagos Archipelago returned to Mauritius and for the dispossessed Chagossian people to be allowed to return to their homelands. The second component is the decolonisation and sovereignty issue, because the Chagos Archipelago used to be part of Mauritius.&; In 1965, before Mauritius gained its independence in 1968, the British Labour government illegally excised the 65-island archipelago and declared it part of an artificial new “colony”, known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/623/623p20.htm   (1491 words)      NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Chagos Archipelago Coral Data Please see the Paleoclimatology Contact Page or the NCDC Contact Page if you have questions or comments. NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Chagos Archipelago Coral Data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/coral/chagos.html   (33 words)      Diego Garcia: Other documents (Bancoult v. McNamara, D.D.C., No.01-cv-2629) According to L’Express, the concerned parties have also “chosen to decline the invitation by the British authorities because the latter are dictating to them the names of the people to make the trip”. The islanders want to be allowed to visit the Chagos island of Diego Garcia, from which they were evicted to make way for a US base which was recently used to launch B-52 and Stealth bombers in the attack on Afghanistan. Mr Bancoult himself was exiled from his home on the Chagos island of Peros Banhos in 1968, when he was just four years old. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/5_other-documents.html   (2245 words)      SpeakReality Forums - Surviva 3: Chagos Archipelago Show 40 posts from this thread on one page They will be the first person voted out of Surviva 3: Chagos Archipelago! It is here, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, that 20 Real World and Road Rules Alumni will compete for $1,000,000. http://www.speakreality.com/printthread.php?t=99   (320 words)      Seychelles, Map and Flag claims the Chagos Archipelago (UK-administered British Indian Ocean Territory) Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing. Army, Coast Guard (includes Air Wing), Presidential Protection Unit (includes Presidential Guard), Police Force (includes Police Mobile Unit, a special weapons and tactics unit capable of assisting the Army in maintaining internal stability) http://www.greatestcities.com/Africa/Seychelles.html   (1098 words)      Amphiprion Chagosensis Variant Chagos Archipelago has been a military zone for some years and off-limits to most tourists. At Chagos Archipelago it is often confused with A.bicinctus which can also be found there, although A.bicinctus is much larger and visually different. Chagos Archipelago, brown form: Suez Canal, Red Sea. http://wish.wodonga.tafe.edu.au/~kwaldon/chag060.htm   (150 words)      Chagossians reclaim our land The Court acknowledged that we had been unlawfully removed from the island. Chagos is an Archipelago in the Indian Ocean administered by the British government. The British government leases the Chagos Archipelago to the US for at least $2 billions a year and other concessions - e.g. http://www.refusingtokill.net/Chagos/chagos.htm   (1036 words)      ILOIS TRUST Online These names, while they were common in the Chagos Archipelago during the 1820s and 1830s, to a certain extent resemble some of the names of today’s Chagossians who reside in Mauritius and the Seychelles. Furthermore, it was precisely because of this isolation that a distinct and insular island society had emerged in the Chagos by the turn of the 20th century. By the first decade of the nineteenth century, French colonial power in the Indian Ocean crumbled with the capture of Mauritius and some of the other islands in the south west Indian Ocean. http://www.iloistrust.org/8695.html   (1252 words)      Chagos Archipelago --  Encyclopædia Britannica colony of the United Kingdom in the central Indian Ocean, established November 8, 1965, by the amalgamation of the Aldabra Islands and the Farquhar and Desroches islands (all purchased from the Seychelles) with the Chagos Archipelago (formerly a dependency of Mauritius). The Persian Gulf War of 1990–91 and the war in Afghanistan had... The Aldabras, together with Farquhar and Desroches islands and the Chagos Archipelago, formed part of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 to 1976. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9022238?tocId=9022238   (725 words)      PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - AUSTRALIA The Chagos Archipelago is a vast array of coral reefs sheltering five small coral atolls and numerous submerged atolls-all having been formed during a period of millions of years. Captain Rodrigo Olson inspects the main sail as the Odyssey circumnavigates the Chagos Archipelago. So we can interpret this in two ways: either the whalers were only in the area during the months of the year when whale kills occurred, or they were here in other months-perhaps even year round-but only found whales during the months indicated on the Charts. http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20020621_log_transcript.html   (714 words)      The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background The Kingdom of Hawaii claimed the atoll in 1862, and the US included it among the Hawaiian Islands when it annexed the archipelago in 1898. Mayotte was ceded to France along with the other islands of the Comoros group in 1843. This archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds and by potential oil and gas reserves. http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2028.html   (15472 words)      Chagos Archipelago on Encyclopedia.com The battle for the Chagos archipelago: Mauritius is preparing to go to the International Court of Justice to re-claim its sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago. Chagos: Talks on the Future of the Islands Are On... CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO [Chagos Archipelago] see British Indian Ocean Territory. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-C1hagos.asp   (274 words)      Great Chagos Bank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page was last modified 00:23, 2 April 2006. There are seven or eight individual islands on the rim of the atoll, one in the North (Nelson's Island) and the others on the Eastern rim. Atolls of the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chagos_Bank   (257 words)      World History Archives: The history of the Chagos Archipelago and Diego Garcia Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright. The contemporary political history of the Chagos Archipelago & Diego Garcia World History Archives: The history of the Chagos Archipelago and Diego Garcia http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/36/index-ei.html   (137 words)      british indian ocean territory map and information page All of the remaining islands in the archipelago are uninhabited. In just over a decade later, many of the smaller islands were transferred (or given) to the Seychelles when it gained its own independence in 1976. When the UK first established the territory in 1965, the original residents of the islands (against their will) were relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/biot.htm   (564 words)      Indian Ocean The islands of Rodriguez, the Farquhar group, Cargodos and the Chagos Archipelago formed the colony of Mauritius. The Chagos islands became a separate dependency in 1965. After the independence of Mauritius on 12th March 1968, Britain retained the Cargodos and the Chagos Islands for strategic purposes. http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.randall1/indocean.htm   (809 words)      British Indian Ocean Territory (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces) Constitutional history: The Chagos Archipelago (52 islands) was a French possession until ceded to Britain in 1814. In 2000 these islanders won a British court ruling allowing them to resettle in the Chagos Archipelago. Britain granted Mauritius independence in 1965 on condition that the Chagos Archipelago (1,300 miles from Mauritius) be detached to create the British Indian Ocean Territory, which remains a British possession. http://www.regiments.org/nations/indianocean/biot.htm   (319 words)      Noonsite: Chagos The largest island, Diego Garcia, has been made available to the United States as a military base and is off limits to yachts. Reports are that the Chagos Archipelago appears to have been little affected by the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. The Chagos archipelago is a British Indian Ocean Territory. http://www.noonsite.com/Countries/Chagos   (350 words)      ACTION ATLAS: Coral Reefs: Chagos Archipelago (U.K.) Charles Sheppard, an expert on corals at the University of Warwick and the expedition's leader, warns that the elimination of predators would "cause the collapse of the reef ecosystem." We didn't find any groups working here—if you know of any, please tell us Scientists from a research expedition that visited in 1996 report that Sri Lankan pirate fishing boats were easily dodging the lone patrol boat the navy could spare to canvass the area; her Majesty's laxity allows the pirates to make off with huge numbers of reef sharks and other large fish, virtually eliminating whole predator populations. http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/coral_reef/chagos.html   (280 words)      MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Chagos Archipelago definition In 1968 the British government forcibly removed the islanders to make way for U.S. military installations but in 2000 a British High Court ruled that this removal was illegal. Cha·gos Ar·chi·pe·la·go disputed territory of 52 islands, constituting the British Indian Ocean Territory (a dependency of Great Britain), in the Indian Ocean, south of India. MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Chagos Archipelago definition http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_701704959/Chagos_Archipelago.html   (92 words)      Shuttle images of CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO Roving Mouse > Interplanetary > Earth > rove.to > CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO http://rove.to/chagos-archipelago   (99 words)      Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly) Eighty-nine changes in nomenclature from that used in the 1989 list are documented. In total, 80 new records for Chagos are reported here. A revised checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?id=fb97001   (222 words)      References A revised checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. A review of the gobiid fish genus *Trimma* from the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean, with the description of seven new species. Review of the Gobioid fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean http://www.fishbase.org/References/ReferencesListTitles.cfm?Name1=Winterbottom&Name2=&Init1=R.&Init2=&AddAuth=&Year=1986&FishBase=No   (759 words)      Omniseek: /Open Directory /Regional /Indian Ocean Islands /Chagos Archipelago / in Indian _ Ocean _ Islands / Chagos _ Archipelago : Indian Ocean Islands : Chagos Archipelago HotBot Directory/ Regional/ Indian Ocean Islands/ Chagos Archipelago Regional: Indian Ocean Islands (0) Chagos directory only in Regional/ Indian _ Ocean _ Islands Top: Adult: http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{6335}   (229 words)      Where in the World Is Diego Garcia? Although Diego Garcia once had a small native population, the inhabitants, known as the Ilois, or the Chagossians, were forced to relocate (1967–1973) so that the island could be turned into a military base—over the strong protestations of other Indian Ocean islands, who objected to having cruise missiles as neighbors. It then became part of the Chagos Archipelago, which belonged to the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory. The Portuguese explored Diego Garcia in the 1500s; between 1814 and 1965 it was a dependency of Mauritius. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/dg.html   (635 words)

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