The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were expelled by the British 60 years ago. Refugees were anxious to return this year, but their hopes have been caught in a morass of geopolitics.
Their African Islands Were Set to Be Decolonized. Then the U.S. Bombed Iran.
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