Editing Diego Garcia (section)

===Expulsion of 1971===
{{main|Expulsion of the Chagossians}}

All the inhabitants of Diego Garcia were forcibly resettled to other islands in the Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius or Seychelles by 1971 to satisfy the requirements of a UK/United States Exchange of Notes signed in 1966 to depopulate the island when the United States constructed a base upon it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j1970/chagos.htm |title=England and Wales High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division Appendix, Paragraph 396 |publisher=Hmcourts-service.gov.uk |date=1 April 2011 |access-date=21 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604072841/http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j1970/chagos.htm |archive-date=4 June 2010 }}</ref> No current agreement exists on how many of the evacuees met the criteria to be an Îlois, and thus be an indigenous person at the time of their removal, but the UK and Mauritian governments agreed in 1972 that 426 families,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j1970/chagos.htm |title=England and Wales High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division Appendix, Paragraph 417 |publisher=Hmcourts-service.gov.uk |date=1 April 2011 |access-date=21 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604072841/http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j1970/chagos.htm |archive-date=4 June 2010 }}</ref> numbering 1,151 individuals,<ref name="Sand_25"/> were due compensation payments as exiled Îlois. The total number of people certified as Îlois by the Mauritian Government's Îlois Trust Fund Board in 1982 was 1,579.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uniset.ca/naty/2003EWHC2222.htm |title=Paragraph 629 |publisher=Uniset.ca |access-date=21 June 2012 |archive-date=16 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716081343/http://www.uniset.ca/naty/2003EWHC2222.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Fifteen years after the last expulsion, the Chagossians received compensation from the British, totalling $6,000 per person; some Chagossians received nothing. The British expulsion action remains in litigation {{As of|2016|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eeas.europa.eu/british_indian_ocean_territory/index_en.htm |title=European Union – EEAS (European External Action Service) |work=europa.eu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225061830/http://eeas.europa.eu/british_indian_ocean_territory/index_en.htm |archive-date=25 December 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/27/chagos-islands-maldives-seabed-claim?intcmp=239 |title=Chagos Islands exiles amazed by speed of Foreign Office's opposition to seabed claim by Maldives |first=Owen|last= Bowcott |date=27 September 2010 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=27 September 2011}}</ref> Today, Chagossians remain highly impoverished and are living as "marginalised" outsiders on the island of Mauritius and the Seychelles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chagossians-the original inhabitants of Diego Garcia face U.S. government in the court|url=http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/chagossians-original-inhabitants-diego-garcia-face-us-government-court|access-date=2 February 2022|website=www.culturalsurvival.org|date=8 February 2002|language=en|archive-date=28 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328163052/https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/chagossians-original-inhabitants-diego-garcia-face-us-government-court|url-status=live}}</ref>