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A disappointing verdict in the British House of Lords today, with citizens of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, forcibly evicted in the early 1970s, losing an appeal to reverse a decision preventing their return to their home.
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Two items in the past 24 hours about The Empire On Which The Sun Never Set Till Nighttime:
Hundreds of Indian Ocean islanders who were forcibly deported from their homeland by Britain 40 years ago won a battle yesterday which could see them set sail for an emotional return within days.
The court of appeal in London found the British government guilty of "abuse of power" for attempting to prevent the Chagos Islanders from reclaiming land leased from under their feet by Britain to the US in the 1960s.
