Mauritius: Chagos Treaty Doesn't End Harm to Indigenous People

Mauritius: Chagos Treaty Doesn't End Harm to Indigenous People

The UK and Mauritius on May 22, 2025, announced they had agreed a treaty concerning the Chagos Archipelago. Over 50 years ago, the UK and US forcibly displaced the entire Chagossian Indigenous people, mostly to Mauritius, for a US military base on the island of Diego Garcia and have prevented their return to live in their homeland, an ongoing colonial crime against humanity.

Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a UK-Mauritius deal

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius

The Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister

London, 23 May 2025 (AFP) – The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized on Friday the agreement for the return of the Chagos by the United Kingdom to Mauritius, regretting that the Chagosians, expelled decades ago, cannot return to the main island of this Indian Ocean archipelago. According to this agreement signed by London on Thursday, [...]

The United Kingdom has signed an agreement for the surrender of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, announced the British Prime Minister on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Under British rule since the 19th century, these atolls have had a major strategic role since the United States established a military base there.