Diego Garcia base compensation ruling [DC Circuit]

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Diego Garcia base compensation ruling [DC Circuit]

April 22, 2006 10:35:00 pm

Bancoult v. McNamara, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 21, 2006 [ruling that the federal courts were not authorized to grant compensation to the Chagossians, a group of Indian Ocean islanders forced from their homes in 1963 when the US Department of Defense cleared the island of Diego Garcia to develop a US military base]. Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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