Home to Chagos at Last?

Published May 30, 2007

One should never underestimate the cunning and treachery of the British government. Even the French, no slouches in this domain themselves, quite rightly refer to "perfidious Albion." But the British courts are another matter, and for once it looks like the government has lost. The Chagos Islanders ("Ilois," as they call themselves) are finally going home after 40 years of enforced exile–unless the British government...