Tag: Mauritius

• Tuesday, July 9th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  UK announces new feasibility study into resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory

  

  The British government announced to Parliament that it will commission a new feasibility study into the resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, whose indigenous population the Chagossian was removed in the sixties and early seventies for defense reasons and is an issue that remains highly controversial and sensitive.