Chagos islanders seeking justice from Britain to return them to their homeland

On September 16, 2002, a group of 19 people, who were born in the Chagos Archipelago, picked up their suitcases from the carousel at Gatwick Airport and, having passed through immigration, walked into the South Terminal.

Declaring themselves homeless they began a sit-in.

It ended three days later after West Sussex County Council offered the islanders B&B accommodation for six months in the nearby town of Crawley.