The International Court of Justice sitting in the Hague reached the decision that the British faked the independence of the current Republic of Mauritius in 1968, by illegally dissociating the Archipelago of Chagos illegally from it. Responding to the UN General Assembly’s request filed on 22 June 2017, the International Court of Justice declared on 25 February 2019, that the process of decolonization (1965 – 1968) violated relevant General Assembly Resolutions, specifically Resolution 1514 which prohibits the dismembering of a territory that must be decolonized.
After surrendering the Archipelago of Chagos to the United States in 1966, the United Kingdom expelled the people of these islands – some 1800 persons – to Mauritius and the Seychelles. Right now this archipelago, thus “cleansed” of its native population, is home to a US naval base – the famous base of Diego Garcia, in the island of the same name – and a base for intercepting global communications. The latter is part of the ECHELON network belonging to the “Five Eyes” [1].
The ICJ had ruled that the UK’s financial compensation to the displaced peoples of the Archipelago of Chagos cannot compensate for this loss of sovereignty.
The UN General Assembly is now called to establish the terms under which the Archipelago of Chagos will be returned to the Republic of Mauritius.