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Court rules Chagos Islanders gave up right to return during British expulsion in 1960s

Court in Strasbourg says islanders ‘renounced’ claims to island when they received compensation for resettlement Exiled Chagos Islanders living in Britain and Mauritius have said they are “dumbstruck” by a European court ruling that it has no jurisdiction to examine their forced expulsion by the British government in the 1960s.…