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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 Islands have belonged to Britain since 1814 and were constituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), in 1965.
		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 Islands - British Indian Ocean Territory - Chagos Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chagos Archipelago is a group of 65 main tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, lying 500 km south of the Maldives.
		The entire land area of the islands is a mere 63 km², with the largest island, Diego Garcia, having an area of 44 km².
		The Egmont Islands, arelocated southeast of the Eagle Islands.
	www.britlink.org /biot.htm (1318 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.
		Islands populated by contract workers or with an insignificant population which could be transferred or easily resettled were obviously attractive in those respects.
		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)

	Chagos Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The entire land area of the islands is a mere 63.17 km², with the largest island, Diego García, having an area of 27.20 km².
		The islands were discovered by Vasco da Gama in the early 16th century, then claimed in the 18th century by France as a possession of Mauritius.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chagos_Archipelago (1156 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 entire land area of the islands is a mere 60 km², with the largest island, Diego García, having an area of 27.20 km².
		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)

	Britain shamed as exiles of the Chagos Islands win the right to go home \| Usa \| North America \| International News \| ...
		Yesterday, after more than 30 years in exile and endless court battles, the inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago won the right to return to their home, a group of 65 islands lost in the Indian Ocean and dominated by the US air and naval base on Diego Garcia.
		The decision is a severe embarrassment to the Foreign Office which has been put under strong pressure by the Americans to keep the Chagos islands empty save for US military personnel and guest workers on Diego Garcia.
		US military surveyors considered Aldabra Island, another British possession nearer to Africa, but it was ruled out because of the presence of a rare species of turtle.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/12/wchag12.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/12/ixnews.html (986 words)

	Chagossians (British Indian Ocean Territory) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/io-chago.html (451 words)

	British Indian Ocean Territory
		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)

	The UK Chagos Support Association : The story so far
		The Chagos archipelago is a chain of 65 small coral islands in the Indian Ocean, about halfway between Africa and Indonesia, seven degrees south of the Equator.
		The islands were known to Arab seafarers in early centuries, and the first Europeans to discover them were the Portuguese, in the 16th century.
		As a result of the ruling, the order which had expelled the Chagossians had to be immediately amended, conferring on those born on the islands, and their children, the right to resettle on all the islands.
	domain1164221.sites.fasthosts.com /background.htm (2450 words)

	Offical Histories of Diego Garcia
		The island's name is believed to have come from either the ship's captain or the navigator on that early voyage of discovery.
		The Chagos Islands, of which the largest is Diego Garcia, consist of some 50 small sand cays situated on a large shoal area, the Great Chagos Bank, the whole covering some 22,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean.
		The position of the Chagos Islands remained unchanged until 1965 when the islands were detached from Mauritius with the full agreement of the Mauritius Council of Ministers to form part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/historyofficial.html (2073 words)

	History of Diego Garcia
		To begin with, the island could never be “an object of commerce.” Its produce was “confined to coconuts and a precocious supply of turtle and fish.” He then explained why, from a sailor’s viewpoint, the island was not as handy as its central geographic position might seem to indicate.
		During the French Revolution the island of I’ll de France and its occupants were often a mere afterthought to French authorities on the European continent, and as a result the island escaped much of the tumult and the terror.
		Since basically the only employment on the island was the plantations, and they hired workers on a contract basis, the island’s residents were often referred to as “contract laborers.” This gave readers of government reports the idea that the island’s residents were a transient and temporary population whose true home was elsewhere.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/realhistory-2.html (19647 words)

	Chagos Islands - available only on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chagos Islands, once home to a native population known as Ilois, or Chagossians, lies in the Indian Ocean approximately 500 kilometers south of Maldives.
		The natives were deported by the British governement in the late sixties and early seventies to fulfill the terms of a leasing agreement, to depopulate the islands and make way for, initially a communication centre, and later to became a US military base on the main island of Diego Garcia during the cold war.
		Today, Chagos archipelago remains a military zone, and has served in launching of B52s during operation Desert Fox in 98 in Iraq, attacks on Afganistan, and during the latest invasion of Iraq in 2003.
	www.chagosislands.com (187 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| The Chagos Islands: A sordid tale
		The alternative was the Chagos Islands, part of Mauritius, then a British territory campaigning for independence.
		Independence was granted to Mauritius, but only after the Chagos Islands were separated in November 1965 by an Order in Council and renamed the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT.
		Those residents leaving the island were refused re-entry, then the copra plantations were bought up by the BIOT administration and closed down, medical facilities and supply ships withdrawn.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1005064.stm (837 words)

	Planet Ark - Mauritius claims UK's Chagos islands
		The Chagos archipelago, which lies about 1,000 km (600 miles) northeast of Mauritius, was separated from it in 1965 and remains in British hands.
		Apart from the island of Diego Garcia, which has a major military air base leased by Britain to the United States more than three decades ago, the archipelago of more than 60 small islands is now uninhabited.
		The other Chagos Islands are covered by dense tropical forests and scrub or made up largely of white beaches with little vegetation.
	www.planetark.org /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=24424 (335 words)

	Britain Illegally Expelled Chagos Islanders for U.S. Base, Court Rules
		The Chagos islands were separated from Mauritius in 1965 and became a new colony called the British Indian Ocean Territory.
		But the United States wanted a land without people, and the islands were depopulated by stealth between 1967 and 1973, according to information revealed in a U.S. congressional investigation in 1975 and in Foreign Office documents declassified after 30 years and introduced in the case.
		Gifford, Bancoult's attorney, said he was uncertain how the government ultimately would comply with the court ruling, whether the exiles would be allowed to return to their native islands or be relocated on the islands farthest from Diego Garcia, or whether they ultimately would be asked to remain abroad and receive compensation.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/110400-01.htm (1113 words)

	Electronic Law Journals - LGD 2004 (1) - Gifford
		Now the tragedy of the Chagos Islanders, is that their homeland was identified as a potential military base in the 1960’s and that the population proved to be totally dispensable when the UK and the US got together to plan strategy.
		The strange fact about the Chagos Islands was that the supreme legislature was a single chap: the Commissioner for BIOT, and that was why the immigration ordnance of 1971 had been signed by a single individual Sir Bruce Greatbatch who happened to be the Commissioner of the territory 1971.
		On the same day he passed a new immigration ordinance which provided that those born on the islands and their descendants had the right to return to all of the islands in the Chagos archipelago except Diego Garcia, and there, it was unlawful for them to be present unless they could obtain a permit.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/2004_1/gifford (6273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Q&A: Chagos Islands dispute
		The forced removal by the British Government of around 2,000 islanders from the Chagos group of islands, in the Indian Ocean, between 1967 and 1973.
		They were moved so the United States could build a military airbase on the island of Diego Garcia, the biggest of the archipelago.
		The island, and the rest of the Chagos archipelago, remains under British Indian Ocean Territory control, and is subject to UK law.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3177682.stm (480 words)

	Chagos Archipelago - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO [Chagos Archipelago] see British Indian Ocean Territory.
		The battle for the Chagos archipelago: Mauritius is preparing to go to the International Court of Justice to re-claim its sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago.
		Lord Triesman welcomes the start of the Chagos Islands humanitarian visit.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-c1hagos.html (168 words)

	com001 OAU threatens reconciliation pact on Comoros
		The Chagos refugees have filed a law suit against the British Government, claiming the illegality of their eviction from their home islands from 1965 and onwards.
		Tromelin is an uninhabited island of one square kilometre with scattered bushes, located in the middle of the high seas between Mauritius and Madagascar.
		This small group of islands is uninhabited, consisting of lush vegetation and coconut palms, mainly constitutes a resource due to the 200 nautical miles fishery zone claimed by France.
	www.afrol.com /News/mas003_chagos_anjouan.htm (2165 words)

	US and UK Government International Intervention Since 1945: The Chagos Islands
		It also states that the islands are inhabited "mostly by men and women born and brought up on the 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".
	www.us-uk-interventions.org /Chagos_Islands.html (3471 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)

	Noonsite: Chagos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chagos archipelago is a British Indian Ocean Territory.
		The largest island, Diego Garcia, has been made available to the United States as a military base and is off limits to yachts.
		The original inhabitants, who lived on the islands for two centuries before being resettled in Mauritius in the 1960s, won the right to go back to all islands except Diego Garcia on November 3 2000 in the High Court in London.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/Chagos (372 words)

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