Online collection of documents, maps, photographs and videos recording the history of the people of the Chagos Islands (also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT), their exile when the US-UK military base was set up on Diego Garcia, and the resulting legal disputes. The archive includes US and UK official documents; UN documents; documents from court cases; birth, death and marriage records; material from Chagossian organisations; literature about the Chagos Archipelago its people; and material from the national archives of Mauritius and the Seychelles. The archive, which is still under development, is a collaborative initative by the Chagossians, their supporters and the Chagos Refugees Public Anthropology Clinic at American University, Washington DC.
The Chagos Archive
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