UK’s ‘unlawful’ control of Chagos Islands must end, UN court orders

The International Court of Justice ruled the UK’s ongoing administration of the India Ocean land is a ‘wrongful act’.

The United Kingdom must end its administration of the Chagos Islands “as rapidly as possible”, the United Nations’ highest court has said.

Britain forcibly evicted people from the Chagos Archipelago, a sovereignty in the Indian Ocean disputed by the UK and Mauritius, in the 1960s and 1970s so the United States could build a military base.