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In the 1960s and 70s, Britain secretly and illegally threw the Chagos islanders off their islands, to make way for a US military base. In 2000 the courts ruled the eviction illegal, but the Government simply passed new orders bypassing the courts, and has just won an appeal to the Law Lords confirming its right to do this. The islanders are now looking to take their fight to the European Court of Human Rights
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