Courts quash exiled islanders' hopes for return
The cherished hopes of hundreds of exiled families longing to return to their native islands in the Indian Ocean were dashed today when the Law Lords upheld the British government’s last-ditch bid to stop them going home.
Some 2,000 residents were forced out of the Chagos Islands when the British colony was leased to the US in the 1960s to build an airbase on the atoll of Diego Garcia.
