Tag: Sir Paul Gore-Booth

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  The plight of the Ilois: Victims of the Cold War and the War on Terror

  

  “The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls,” wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in 1966. “We must surely be very tough about this.”