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 ....
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