UK under pressure to resettle islanders |
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| The inhabitants of Diego Garcia, moved to Mauritius and the Seychelles by the British Government in 1973 to make way for a United States air base, last month started a High Court action demanding to be returned. Their lawyer, Richard Gifford, said that a Foreign Office-commissioned report by independent experts gave a major boost to the islanders' case. The BBC's World at One programme reports. |