Update In the Last Colony

Someone on an open thread referenced news summarized in one article as "Britain Agrees Chagos Island Sovereignty Deal with Mauritius."

I wrote a book summary regarding an account of the long struggle to address a human rights wrong growing out of British colonialism. As noted in a recent article:

Britain, which has controlled the region since 1814, detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius - a former colony that became independent three years later - to create the British Indian Ocean Territory.

In the early 1970s, it evicted almost 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make way for an airbase on the largest island, Diego Garcia, which it had leased to the United States in 1966.

Sands provides some more detail in his nifty book, which covers a lot of ground in a way approachable to the general reader. The book ends with a victory if one unenforced. We now have a next step.

A NYT article provides more detail with a comment from Sands:

“It’s a settlement which Mauritius and the United Kingdom can both be proud to be associated with,” said Philippe Sands, an international lawyer who helped draft the original legal arguments for the handover of the islands. “It allows the United Kingdom to stand tall with its head held high on international law.”

Perhaps, the author will release a new edition with a brief update. The decades-long fight here shows the complications and imperfections of the battle for justice. Wins are received while wrongs continue.