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	Organisations - Chagos Conservation Trust
		The Chagos Conservation Trust is a charitable association, established in 1992, whose aims are to promote conservation, scientific and historical research, and to advance education concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, the largest island.
		The Chagos Archipelago is an isolated group of atolls and reefs in the Central Indian Ocean.
		The isolation of the Chagos, far from maritime trade routes, and restrictions on access to the islands means that they and the adjoining reef areas enjoy an exceptionally pure environment, free from the contamination normally associated with human activity.
	www.ukotcf.org /members/chagos.htm (513 words)

	Chagos Archipelago Summary
		The Chagos Archipelago (formerly called the Oil Islands) is a cluster of islands in the central Indian Ocean, administered by the United Kingdom, and having a total land area of 197square kilometers.
		The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls with more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, that lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and 1600 km (1000 miles) southwest of India, halfway between Africa and Indonesia.
		The most high profile aspect of Chagos Island politics relates to the continued future of the former inhabitants of the islands who were evicted in the 1960s and 1970s as part of an arrangement between the United Kingdom and the United States to establish a defence establishment on the island of Diego Garcia.
	www.bookrags.com /Chagos_Archipelago (1201 words)

	Chagos Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls with more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, that lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and 1600 km (1000 miles) southwest of India, halfway between Africa and Indonesia.
		The territory was ceded to the United Kingdom by treaty in 1814 and on 31 August 1903 the Chagos Archipelago was administratively separated from the Seychelles and attached to Mauritius.
		The most high profile aspect of Chagos Island politics relates to the continued future of the former inhabitants of the islands who were evicted in the 1960s and 1970s as part of an arrangement between the United Kingdom and the United States to establish a defence establishment on the island of Diego Garcia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chagos_Archipelago (1103 words)

	Chagosians/Ilois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The island of Chagos Archipelago is covered in rich foliage and soaring palm trees.
		The British government claimed that the removal of the culture from Chagos Island was unlawful, and should never have been allowed to happen.
		Tthe Islanders from the tiny Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean won the right in British court to return to their homeland 30 years after they were forcibly removed.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/chagosians.html (552 words)

	Recent News. Malagasy Scholar...Blue Ventures. Award-winning marine conservation expeditions for scientists and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are around 50 islands scattered around the Chagos atolls, however most are awash at low tide, and with the exception of the southernmost island of Diego Garcia, which currently serves as a US naval support facility, all of the islands have been uninhabitated for at least 30 years.
		Chagos reefs were heavily impacted by the mass coral bleaching which occurred in 1998, attributed to unseasonably high sea surface temperatures throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans following a major El Nino event.
		The frequency and severity of reef bleaching are forecast to increase dramatically as a result of global climate change, and there is now a critical need for increased understanding of the ways in which coral reefs may be responding to this unprecedented thermal stress.
	www.blueventures.org /newsrecent_chagos.htm (552 words)

	Chagos islanders resist superpowers \| August 2006 \| New Internationalist
		Chagos Islanders about to embark on a boat taking them home from their long exile.
		In blatant disregard of this resolution, the Chagos Islands were detached from the British colony of Mauritius in 1965 prior to the latter’s independence in 1968, and instead subsumed into the British Indian Ocean Territory.
		While further legal battles with Britain might still lie ahead, the trip to Chagos has strengthened the resolve of Bancoult and his fellow Chagossians to make a permanent return, particularly now that some of them have seen with their own eyes the immense natural wealth and beauty of their islands.
	www.newint.org /columns/currents/2006/08/01/human-rights (775 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (IM0125)
		Two-hundred of the islands are inhabited, with a population estimated at 301,475 in 2000.
		Chagos is the most remote group of islands, located at 5°-8° S. Roughly 500 km south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands are uninhabited, aside from Diego Garcia, which is used as a US military base.
		Chagos may be the least disturbed group, supporting broadleaved woodland of Ficus, Morinda and Terminalia (especially on smaller islands), Casuarina woodland, mixed coconut woodland, Scaevola scrub, and marsh communities (UNEP 1998).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0125_full.html (2094 words)

	Chagos Archipelago definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Chagos Archipelago definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Cha·gos Ar·chi·pe·la·go disputed territory of 52 islands, constituting the British Indian Ocean Territory (a dependency of Great Britain), in the Indian Ocean, south of India.
		In 1968 the British government forcibly removed the islanders to make way for U.S. military installations but in 2000 a British High Court ruled that this removal was illegal.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_701704959/Chagos_Archipelago.html (109 words)

	Chagos Islanders v. Attorney General
		The Chagos islands, with Mauritius, were ceded by France to the Crown by the Treaty of Paris in 1814.
		By mid 1985, the Chagos Refugee Group, amongst the leaders of which was Olivier Bancoult, were contending that the Ilois had been exiled through coercion, in violation of their human rights; they continued to claim that the compensation was inadequate.
		It was Chagos Agalega Company Limited and the subsequent management company, Moulinie & Co, which was responsible for reducing the number of workers, for recruitment and organising the transport of the workers and their dependants to Mauritius, Agalega and the Seychelles upon closure of the islands.
	www.uniset.ca /naty/2003EWHC2222.htm (15658 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (IM0125)
		Two-hundred of the islands are inhabited, with a population estimated at 301,475 in 2000.
		Chagos is the most remote group of islands, located at 5°-8° S. Roughly 500 km south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands are uninhabited, aside from Diego Garcia, which is used as a US military base.
		Chagos may be the least disturbed group, supporting broadleaved woodland of Ficus, Morinda and Terminalia (especially on smaller islands), Casuarina woodland, mixed coconut woodland, Scaevola scrub, and marsh communities (UNEP 1998).
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0125_full.html (2094 words)

	Chagos Islands And New Orleans Katrina Victims
		Chagos Islands were inhabited by Chagossians and was a thriving community whose roots dated from back in the 18th century.
		The media has been quite successful in giving the perception to the general public that all of the people displaced are where they want to be and are living happily ever after.
		Further, what troubles me is that just as the Bush administration has been a part of the issues with Chagos Islands, it is my perception that the displacement of poor African Americans may have been their ultimate goal.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/06aug/article114.html (411 words)

	US and UK Government International Intervention Since 1945: The Chagos Islands
		Following the Constitutional Conference, the Chagos Archipelago is detached from Mauritius and, along with three islands from the British colony of Seychelles, they are made into the new Colony of British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
		January - A Foreign Office legal advisor notes that it is important "to maintain the fiction that the inhabitants of the Chagos are not a permanent or semi-permanent population".
		Chagos Refugees Group and their legal advisor, Robin Mardaymootoo, sue the British state for damages and reparations.
	www.us-uk-interventions.org /Chagos_Islands.html (3471 words)

	Chagos families win right to return \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Photograph: PA A group of British citizens evicted from the Chagos Islands 40 years ago to make way for a military base won a new victory in the high court today in their legal bid to return home.
		Mr Bancoult returned to the high court last December to argue the royal prerogative should not be used "to remove or exclude British citizens from the territory to which they belong".
		The Chagos archipelago was designated a separate colony, known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, for defence purposes in 1965 at the height of the cold war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,,1772729,00.html?gusrc=rss (766 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chagos Archipelago is a possession of the United Kingdom, and is known officially as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
		Access to the Chagos Archipelago is limited, partly because of the presence of the military base at Diego Garcia, and partly because of its isolation.
		It is also clear that if the coral reefs of the Chagos are to be preserved in a pristine condition, as many hope, greater efforts will have to be made to control fishing of the reefs' top predators.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/organizations/ssg/sharknews/sn10/shark10news1.htm (1941 words)

	BBC - Search results for chagos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chagos islanders evicted decades ago to make way for a US airbase win a fresh victory at the UK High Court.
		Chagos islanders tell the BBC of their first visit home after they were expelled by the British nearly 40 years ago.
		Chagos islanders are being allowed on a visit to Diego Garcia more than 30 years after being evicted for an American base.
	search.bbc.co.uk /cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=ns&q=chagos&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=i (204 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Monitoring \| Islanders in Diego Garcia stand-off
		The exiled islanders from the Indian Ocean archipelago of Chagos are turning down an opportunity to return home for the first time in 30 years, unless the proposal includes the island of Diego Garcia currently occupied by the US military.
		The islanders want to be allowed to visit the Chagos island of Diego Garcia, from which they were evicted to make way for a US base which was recently used to launch B-52 and Stealth bombers in the attack on Afghanistan.
		Chagos activists say they have done everything possible to include Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands, on the itinerary of the long awaited-trip scheduled for October.
	www.lossless-audio.com /usa/729567828.htm (530 words)

	Chagossians (British Indian Ocean Territory) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chagos Islands are part of British Indian Ocean Territory.
		Seen on Mauritian TV news (12.11.2000), during a demonstration of the former inhabitants of the Chagos islands, many copies of the Chagos flag.
		It was called "Chagos Islanders", and was about the plight of the 8000 Chagosians deported from their homeland to Mauritius by the British.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/io-chago.html (451 words)

	Indian Ocean - Chagos Archipelago
		The Chagos Archipelago is the southernmost group of atolls on the Laccadive-Chagos Ridge — the submarine feature upon which the Maldive and Laccadive (Lakshadweep) islands are also located.
		In all, there are around 57 islands and islets scattered among the reefs of the Chagos Archipelago with a combined land area of 63 km².
		The single largest landmass is that of the main island of Diego Garcia atoll, with an area of 28 km² — accounting for almost half of the total land area of the archipelago.
	www.oceandots.com /indian/chagos (450 words)

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		This action seeks relief for the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago and their direct descendents {sic: descendants}, who lived and worked on the Chagos Archipelago for centuries until they were forcefully removed by the United States and exported against their will to another land.
		Settlement of Chagos began in the late 1780s or earlier, and by 1824 the first British government agent was appointed to administer Chagossian affairs.
		Olivier Bancoult was born in Chagos and adequately represents the class members who were denied by Defendants and/or their agents the right to return home to Chagos after normal, legal travel and who were denied employment based on national origin.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/bancoult-d1.html (8737 words)

	UK Chagos Support Blog
		When the Chagossians were rounded up and thrown off their islands in the 1960s and 70s, they couldn’t turn to the Government for protection… because it was the Government that was evicting them.
		Richard Gifford, solicitor for the islanders, said: "This is now the third time that Olivier Bancoult, the leader of the Chagossian Community in exile, has proved to the satisfaction of English judges that nothing can separate his compatriots from their homeland.
		Olivier Bancoult and the Chagos Islanders are ready to engage the Government in a constructive way to plan their resettlement in the knowledge that this is the only lawful and honourable course for the British Government to adopt."
	chagosuk.blogspot.com (787 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| The Chagos Islands: A sordid tale
		That was how Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, barrister for the Chagos islanders or Ilois, described their forced removal from their "paradise" homeland in the 1960s and 1970s.
		The alternative was the Chagos Islands, part of Mauritius, then a British territory campaigning for independence.
		When the first Americans arrived on Diego Garcia, the largest atoll in the Chagos chain, the remaining residents were simply shipped out, first to a nearby island and then to Mauritius.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1005064.stm (837 words)

	British Indian Ocean Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Is formed by the Chagos Islands (Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, etc...) in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
		The territory was established on 8 November 1965 by the amalgamation of the Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches islands (formerly part of the Seychelles) and the Chagos Archipelago (formerly from Mauritius.
		The Chagos islands continued to be administered as a dependency of Mauritius until, with the full agreement of the Mauritius Council of Ministers, they were detached to become part of the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/io.html (813 words)

	Black Britain \| News \| Daily News and Sport
		The Chagos Islanders living in Crawley have won another court battle, this time to challenge the right to claim benefits, but the UK spokesman told Black Britain that the government is waging a propaganda war to avoid taking responsibility.
		Lawyers for the Chagos community have argued that they should be treated like citizens of the Irish Republic who are entitled to claim benefits straight away because of its historical ties with Britain.
		Pleas from the Chagos Islanders for assistance from the British government to assist the community in Mauritius who were living in abject poverty and suffering from discrimination, culminated in a visit by Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell in January 2005.
	blackbritain.co.uk /news/details.aspx?I=1451&c=uk&h=Chagos+Islanders (1438 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chagos Archipelago is a possession of the United Kingdom, and is known officially as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
		Access to the Chagos Archipelago is limited, partly because of the presence of the military base at Diego Garcia, and partly because of its isolation.
		It is also clear that if the coral reefs of the Chagos are to be preserved in a pristine condition, as many hope, greater efforts will have to be made to control fishing of the reefs' top predators.
	flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/organizations/ssg/sharknews/sn10/shark10news1.htm (1941 words)

	trinicenter.com - Chagos islanders
		He was banished with the rest of the population of the Chagos archipelago, one of Britain's last colonial outposts.
		With Mauritius, the Chagos islands formed part of a British colony, but in the 60s, when Mauritius was negotiating independence, Britain struck a deal.
		British Indian Ocean Territory: Chagos archipelago and 54,400 sq km of ocean, of which 60 sq km is dry land.
	www.trinicenter.com /Chagosislanders/islanders.htm (1561 words)

	Chagos islanders to return home after British eviction \| Breaking News \| News \| Telegraph
		Families evicted by the British from the Chagos Islands decades ago so the Americans could build a secret airbase have won a victory in their High Court battle for the right to return.
		In a damning verdict, two judges condemned as "repugnant" the British Government's decision to "exile a whole population" from the Indian Ocean on the basis that it was necessary for "peace, order and good government".
		Today's ruling in his favour is the latest extraordinary twist in what critics have described as one of the most shameful episodes in modern British history - the enforced depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago 30 years ago to provide the US with a strategic navy and air base of unparalleled security.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/11/uchagos.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/11/ixnews.html (484 words)

	Pravda.RU:Irina Malenko: Inhabitants of Chagos Archipelago deported by Great Britain 30 years ago ...
		Chagos Archipelago, which is in the very center of the Indian Ocean, consists of many tiny islands that are of great importance not only because of their fish resources but also due to their suitable strategic location.
		Namely, this fact caused ex-colonial mother country Great Britain to seize Chagos from Maurutius before it became sovereign in 1968 and to lease it to the USA for 50 years.
		People of Chagos were deported between 1965 and 1973, to 'empty space' for the creation a US military base on Diego Garcia Island.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2001/11/15/21042_.html (490 words)

	Memorandum Opinion, Dec. 21 2004, Bancoult v. McNamara (D.D.C., No. 01-CV-2629) (Diego Garcia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Because the plaintiffs fail to rebut the Attorney General’s certification that the individual defendants acted within their scope of employment when the events complained of took place, the court finds that the individual defendants are immune from suit under the Westfall Act and grants their motion to dismiss.
		Chagos is a grouping of small islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at least 1,000 miles away from the nearest landmasses of India, Mauritius, Australia, and the Gulf States.
		The {p.12} negotiations with Britain concerning the Chagos archipelago, the relocation of the Chagossian population to Mauritius and Seychelles, and the development and construction of a military base on Diego Garcia were activities undertaken by each of the individual defendants to further the U.S. government’s national security interests, not their personal interests.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/DismissalofLawsuitFull2005.html (7525 words)

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