British Indian Ocean Territory

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In 1965, three years before giving independence to Mauritius, UK detached the Chagos Archipelago to form a separate British Indian Ocean Territory, expelled the population and then leased the territory to US to establish a military base on the largest island of Diego Garcia. As part of the 1965 'Lancaster ...

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Formerly governed by the British Empire as part of the Colony of Mauritius, the Chagos Islands were made into a new colony, the British Indian Ocean Territory, in 1965. At the time, the islands were home to around 1,500 indigenous islanders. Within just eight years, however, the colonial authorities in ...

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But a few years before Mauritius gained independence from the UK, the islands were carved off to become the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The UK lent the archipelago's largest island, Diego Garcia, to the US to use as a strategic military base. In the process, around 1,500 islanders were forcibly ...

In 2000, it withdrew the Chagossian right of abode in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) - as the UK calls the Chagos Islands - and, in 2004, it reinstated full immigration restrictions over the BIOT. In 2010, it declared a controversial marine protected area around the BIOT which was later rendered ...

In 2000, it withdrew the Chagossian right of abode in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) - as the UK calls the Chagos Islands - and, in 2004, it reinstated full immigration restrictions over the BIOT. In 2010, it declared a controversial marine protected area around the BIOT which was later rendered ...

... the BIOT [British Indian Ocean Territory], including Diego Garcia, for military purposes.” According to the cable, the senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official agreed the US and UK should negotiate “to assure that U.S. interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld.”.

In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3m to create the British Indian Ocean Territory. The following year Diego Garcia was provided as a military base for the US, via an exchange of notes between the two countries.

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