UK Defies Deadline to Return Chagos Island

Mauritius called the UK an “illegal colonial occupier”, after it ignored a UN mandated deadline to return the Chagos Islands, a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. The United Nations had given UK six months to process the transfer, a move the UK and the US have bitterly resisted.

Chagos Islands Dispute

• Chagos Island has been part of Mauritius since 18th Century till the UK broke the archipelago away from its territory in 1965.
• The UK declared these islands as an overseas territory in November 1965.
• After Mauritius gained independence from the UK in 1968, UK ....