Published: 24 May 2007
Thousands of British citizens who were evicted from their paradise island home to make way for a giant US air base have won the right to return.
In a landmark legal judgment, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Chagos islanders could rebuild a life that they lost in the late 1960s.
Yesterday the islanders packed the court to witness their victory, and then called on the Government to pay for about 5,000 of them to return and rebuild the life that they lost 40 years ago. continue...
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