Exiled Chagos islanders cannot return home, UK rules

Al Jazeera English 2016-11-17

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The exiled population of the Chagos Islands have lost their long-running legal battle to be allowed to return to their homeland.

They were expelled from the British-controlled islands more than 40 years ago to make way for a US military base.
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