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22 October 2010

Chagos: when Bancoult met Bellingham

Leader of the Chagos Refugees Group in Mauritius meets Foreign Office minister for the overseas terr

By Sean Carey

Yesterday, Olivier Bancoult, leader of the Chagos Refugees Group in Mauritius, as well as Roch Evenor, chair of the UK Chagos Support Association, together with two representatives from the thousand or so Islanders and their descendants who have settled in Crawley, Sussex, met Henry Bellingham, minister for Africa and the overseas territories, and his officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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