I wish I copuld believe that the islanders - those of them who have not died during their exile - will "have their islands restored to them".

The most they can hope for, if the British Government does not find some new way of obstructing the judgement of the courts, is that they will be allowed to go to live on some of the outlying islands, well away from Diego Garcia itself. There seems to be no prospect whatsoever of them being allowed to go home.

The point is, consistently before and after the Falklands war, British governments of both parties, have shown themselves as totally contemptuous of the rights of the Chagos islanders,and of their obligations towards them. Human rights and obligations didn't come into it.

And the same was in fact true of the Falklands - it just happened that this time it suited the government of the day to go to war. So they made a great show of actually caring about the rights of these islanders.