Chagos Islanders win right to return home

Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by the British government to make way for the Diego Garcia US airbase today won their legal battle to return home.

Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by the British government to make way for the Diego Garcia US airbase today won their legal battle to return home.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett took the case to the Court of Appeal after two High Court judges found for the Chagossians.

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