UK accused of 'committing an appalling colonial crime' in Chagos Islands, rights group say
Chagossians were evicted from the Islands to make way for a US airbase on the British territoryThe UK is committing crimes against humanity after removing people from the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, a rights group said.
On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch - an international group investigating abuses across the world - published a report calling for the UK and US to provide reparations to Chagossian people. "The UK and the US, who together expelled the Chagossians from their homes, should provide full reparations for the harm they have caused."
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We respect the work Human Rights Watch does around the world, but we categorically reject this characterisation of events.
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