Justice for the Islanders dumped by Britain to make way for US air base

picture - 1968

Forced out and dumped in the slums of Mauritius and Seychelles

picture 1968

Everything demolished to make way for 4000 troops, 2 runways, 30 warships

Since 1968 poverty and discrimination resulting in alcoholism/drug abuse

We fight for our right to return and the welfare of our community

picture 2016

The Chagos Islanders Movement

We are a group of Chagossians volunteers, standing up against the injustice of the British and US government for the islanders forcibly evicted in 1968 to build an airbase for the US Army, then dumped in the slums of Mauritius and Seychelles.