international law
Will the Chagos treaty address the wrongs of the past?
In October 2024, the United Kingdom and Mauritius suddenly announced that they had “reached a political agreement on the future” of the Chagos islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean from which around 2,000 Chagossians were forcibly removed in the 1960’s by the British. But many elements of the coming treaty are apparently unresolved.
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