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Philippe Sands on Britain’s Last Colony

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Human Rights Watch released a report on the forced expulsion of the Chugosian people from their island homes in the Indian Ocean about 60 years ago. Philippe Sands is an international human rights lawyer who served as counsel from Mauritius in its bid to reclaim sovereignty over the islands. We discussed the ChugOSian people's decades-long legal struggle to return to their ancestral home, and the role of race and identity in the making and application of international law.

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