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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Marie HEUCLIN

Chagos Diaspora Angry At Lack Of Input On Islands' Fate

Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is one of the most important US military bases and was used for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (Credit: AFP)

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic military base.

Fifty-one years later, the petite matriarch says she, like many Chagossians living in Britain, is angry at not being given a say in the islands' fate as they are now handed over to Mauritius.

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