Here you will find material from various sources relating to the Chagossians' struggle to get back to their homeland.

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Our news updates

January 2006

A roundup of the media coverage of the 2005 - 2006 judicial review

1 May 2005

UN urged to support Chagossians

1 October 04

John Pilger's film Stealing a nation tells the story of the Chagos eviction

22 August 04

Chagossians warn of hunger strikes if government does not act

2 August 04

Call for the Red Cross to inspect Diego Garcia

2 August 04

Mauritius considers taking Chagos issue to the ICJ

28 July 04

Commonwealth boss attacks Britain over Mauritius snub

28 July 04

Compensation appeal rejected

8 July 04

Government slammed from all sides in Chagos debate

27 June 04

Mauritius considers leaving the Commonwealth

17 June 04

Government defends 'Orders in Council' in parliament

17 June 04

Judges consider appeal application

16 June 04

ALL CHAGOSSIANS BANNED FROM THEIR HOMELAND

14 June 04

Appeal hearing set for Thursday 17 June

19 May 04

May 2004 roundup

19 May 04

Chagossians take compensation fight to Court of Appeal

18 May 04

Mauritian PM discusses Chagos islands with Bush

14 March 04

'Flotilla' to confront Diego Garcia base

1 February 04

January 2004 roundup

8 January 04

Chagossians to 'reclaim' Diego Garcia

14 December 03

Diego Garcia: Britain's Guantanamo Bay?

10 October 03

Compensation ruling 'not the end of the road'

8 September 03

Chagossian pride at the Indian Ocean Islands Games

News stories from The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday

Home at last for exiles of Diego Garcia

12 March 2006

Judge rules islander be given housing

26 October 2004

Perfidy exposed again by Pilger

7 October 2004

Paradise lost

3 October 2004

News stories from BBC News

News stories from Mauritius' L'Express

Conversation with David Snoxell, former British High Commissioner to Mauritius
18 Nov 2004
Le rêve brisé de Charlézia
20 June 2004
Les Chagossiens dans la tenaille britannique
20 June 2004
Port-Louis indifférent aux "Orders in Council"
20 June 2004
"La décision de la Grande-Bretagne est une véritable douche froide"
20 June 2004
La Grande-Bretagne refuse aux Ilois de s'installer aux Chagos
17 June 2004

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Other media articles

British campaigners arrested in Diego Garcia protest from The Guardian
12 March 08

Miliband apologies over US rendition flights from The Times
21 February 2008

The fight for Chagos from Channel 4 News
10 November 07

Postcard: Diego Garcia from Time magazine.
13 September 07

Justice for Chagos from The Times' letters page
19 July 07

Scandalous, high-handed... and a disgrace to Britain from The Times
5 March 07

Islanders scent court win for return home from The Guardian
5 Feb 07

Immigration officials plan to deport baby of 19 months from Black Britain
6 December 06

Exiled Chagossians receive Pan African support as Euro MP blasts hypocritical Blair government from Black Britain
26 September 06

Foreign Office 'scraping the bottom of the barrel' from Black Britain
5 September 06

Foreign Office appeals high court ruling on exiled Chagossians from Black Britain
5 July 06

'We were made homeless by the UK Government' from The Big Issue in the North
3 July 2006

U.K. Appeals Order Permitting Diego Garcia Natives to Return from Bloomberg
1 July 06

Letters to The Guardian in response to Pilger's 'Out of Eden' feature
1 June 06

'Out of Eden' by John Pilger, from The Guardian - G2
29 May 06

Leader: 'In praise of the Chagos Islanders' from The Guardian
13 May 2006

'Britain shamed as exiles of the Chagos islands win the right to go home' by Neil Tweedie, from Telegraph.co.uk
12 May 2006

'High Court overturns Queen's Orders delivering justice for exiled Chagossians' by Deborah Gabriel, from Black Britain
12 May 2006

'Chagos cheers' by Sue Turton, from Channel 4 News
11 May 2006

The winter 2006 issue of Human Rights Brief, containing the article 'The Impoverishment of Displacement: Models for Documenting Human Rights Abuses and the People of Diego Garcia' by David Vine

'John Pilger sees freedom die quietly' from The New Statesman
In this article on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, John Pilger discusses Blair's abuse of the royal prerogative to dismiss the court judgement giving the Chagossians the right to return home.
17 April 2006

'Ousted islanders to get a brief taste of home' from The Telegraph
25 March 2006

'Diego Garcia and the special relationship's dirty secret' by Daniel Simpson
14 March 2006

'Diego Garcia residents fight second High Court battle for the right to return to Chagos Islands' by Deborah Gabriel, from Black Britain
12 December 2005

John Pilger's Stealing a Nation win's best documentary award
15 March 2005

Watch the report on the Chagos islands on Radio-Canada's Zone Libre (choose 11 March on the calendar)
11 March 2005

Commonwealth and Foreign Office officials visit Mauritius! Compare the Foreign Office coverage with the Chagos Refugees Group's coverage.
14 Jan 05

'Camp Injustice'
by Richard Hindes, 13 April 2005

The story of the Chagos islands - 'a sordid tale'

by Robert Bain (who also runs this website).  From The Tribune, the leading newspaper of the Bahamas, 17 November 2003

Diego Garcia
from Granta magazine, issue 73, March 2001
A great article by Simon Winchester, who visited the Chagos islands and Mauritius.

Britain Illegally Expelled Chagos Islanders for US Base, Court Rules
from the Los Angeles Times, 4 November 2000

What in the world is Diego Garcia? from Time magazine, 20 February 1998

'It Just Takes One Man'

from Canada's National Post, January 2001

Other stuff

- The Chagossians' story in their own words
An extract from The plight of the Chagossians by the Chagos Refugees Group. See selected quotes here.

- The Chagos story in quotes
What various people have said over the years about the plight of the Chagossians

- Contested Roots
A look at how Chagossians in Mauritius view their roots, by Steffen Johannessen

- Dérasiné - The expulsion and impoverishment of the Chagossian people
Summary of the report by David Vine MA, S Wojciech Sokolowski PhD and Philip Harvey JD PhD, on the plight of the Chagossians

Letters from the Chagos Refugees Group (CRG), in response to the orders banning the Chagossians from their islands:

- Letter to the Queen, Tony Blair and Bill Rammell (11 Aug 2004)

- Petition to the Queen (13 July 2004)

- Letter to the Southern African Development Community (14 Aug 2004)

- Parliamentary questions on the Chagos islands

- The parliamentary debate on Diego Garcia from 3 November 2004

- The parliamentary debate on housing for Diego Garcians in Surrey, from 4 November 2004

- The parliamentary debate on the British Indian Ocean Territory from 7 July 2004 (which was prompted by...)

- Early Day Motion 1355, calling for the Orders in Council to be repealed (15 June 2004)

- A letter written by our chairman, Paul Heaton, to Charles Hamilton, BIOT administrator in April 2003.

- In July 2002, Sylvia Boyes, representing the UK Chagos Support Association, gave a speech to the UN Working Group for Indigenous People.

To read the transcript, click here.

- Our chairman Paul Heaton presented a paper to the British Overseas Territories Association in London on the 23rd May 2002.

Click here to read a transcript of his speech.