Exiled Chagos islanders go to top UK court in bid to go home

[bemildred]

LONDON — Indian Ocean islanders who were forced into exile to make way for a key U.S. military base are appealing to Britain’s top court in their long-running campaign to return home.

Britain evicted thousands of people from the tropical Chagos archipelago, a British colony, in the 1960s and 1970s so that the U.S. military could build an air base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.

A decade ago Britain’s High Court and Court of Appeal ruled they and their descendants could return, but those decisions were overturned in 2008 by the Law Lords, then Britain’s highest court.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/exiled-chagos-islanders-go-to-top-uk-court-in-bid-to-go-home/2015/06/22/39c1900a-18e3-11e5-bed8-1093ee58dad0_story.html

[Ghost Dog]

1. Just how valuable is Diego Garcia

to USAF?

[bemildred]

2. It's just irreplaceable if we are to dominate that part of the planet.

(I wish that was sarcasm.)

[Ghost Dog]

3. That's what I thought. Next question:

How much is UK getting paid for this?