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Mauritius says the UK’s handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands attracts an necessary line beneath the archipelago’s colonial historical past. The distant Indian Ocean islands had been Britain’s final African colony. The UK severed the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 and as much as 2,000 Chagossians had been expelled to make approach for a army base. Mauritius says it is excessive time the colonial bullying was addressed. Now some Chagos islanders wish to return to their ancestral house.
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