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UK accused of letting refugees make dangerous Indian Ocean boat journeys

MoD personnel escorted refugees away from Diego Garcia in boat with no record of having radio or lifesaving equipment, lawyers sayLawyers have accused the UK of facilitating dangerous onward boat journeys by Tamil refugees who had arrived at the Britis…

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Exiled Chagos Islanders bask in return ‘as pilgrims to abandoned place’

Fifty years after the UK forcibly deported them, five Chagossians have visited the disputed archipelago with Mauritius’s helpReturning to their birthplace after decades of enforced exile, five Chagossians leapt from a motor launch on to the palm-shaded…

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