Britain’s ownership of the Chagos islands has no basis, Mauritius is right to claim them [The Conversation, February 2022]

Title:

Britain's ownership of the Chagos islands has no basis, Mauritius is right to them

Author:

Peter Harris

Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University

 

Published:

The Conversation, 20 February 2022

https://theconversation.com/britains-ownership-of-the-chagos-islands-has-no-basis-mauritius-is-right-to-claim-them-177461

 

From the article:

The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still exists today. It is long past time for this colonial-era wrongdoing to be made right, and for Mauritius to be made whole.