Expressions of regret have not translated into enabling return or providing reparations.
Last year’s deal handed sovereignty to Mauritius but did not resolve US and UK responsibility for crimes against the islands’ Indigenous people – the Chagossians.
Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.
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