Glistening white sands and blue waters greeted islanders to their long-lost home... but the stench of British injustice cast a dark cloud over their celebrations.
In the Indian Ocean, five Chagos islanders set foot on their homeland, some for the first time in 50 years.
News of their symbolic visit to the UK territory was beamed around the world. And few were watching more closely than 3,000 Chagossians who resettled in Crawley, West Sussex – many of them embroiled in a battle to stay in Britain.
