In the 1960s, the British government evicted the entire indigenous population of more than 1,500 islanders from the archipelago, then claimed it had no permanent population to justify its breach of international law.

Early this year, a group of its original inhabitants sailed to the island — and gave the lie to British colonialism. Unsurprisingly, the British government dismissed the indigenous populations’ attempt to draw attention to the decades-long dispute. After all, it has ignored United Nations resolutions, a guilty verdict handed down by the International Court of Justice, and a ruling by a UN court in 2021 that it must end its “unlawful occupation” of the Chagos islands.

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