Before the Lies
Before the British
Before the French
Chagos Belonged to the Maldives
✦ Reclaiming history. Defending dignity. Confronting colonial fraud.
Chagos was part of Maldivian sovereignty. During the protectorate era Britain bundled it under Mauritius for administrative convenience and reported Mauritius as an NSGT to the UN. In 1965 - just as the Maldives regained independence - Britain carved Chagos into BIOT by Order in Council; the UN condemned the maneuver in Resolution 2066 but failed to recognize Chagossians as a distinct people with no Mauritius constituency or vote. Chagos was not a provincial region of Mauritius until 1982. The UK also failed to list Maldives as a protectorate NSGT (1946) and BIOT despite ~1,500 residents (1965), leaving 2066 defective and trapping Chagos in a UN defect rather than resolving it by decolonization.
Timeline of the UN Defect
Protectorate Era · Pre-1965 1946 · UK Reports Mauritius as NSGT (with Chagos inside) 1946 · Maldives Protectorate Not Listed (1514/1541) 1965 · BIOT Created (Order in Council) 1965 · BIOT Not Reported (~1,500 residents) 1965 · UNGA 2066 Condemns but Ignores Chagossian Electorate 1968 · Mauritius Independence 1968 · Mauritius Removed from NSGT List 1982 · Chagos First Made a Mauritius Provincial Region Net Result · 2066 Defect → No Mauritius Constituency or Vote for Chagossians
Before the Lies
Before the British
Before the French
Chagos Belonged to the Maldives
✦ Reclaiming history. Defending dignity. Confronting colonial fraud.
Chagos was part of Maldivian sovereignty. During the protectorate era Britain bundled it under Mauritius for administrative convenience and reported Mauritius as an NSGT to the UN. In 1965—just as the Maldives regained independence—Britain carved Chagos into BIOT by Order in Council; the UN condemned the excision in Resolution 2066 but failed to recognize Chagossians as a distinct people with no Mauritius constituency or vote. The UK did not list the Maldives as a protectorate NSGT in 1946 or report BIOT in 1965 despite ~1,500 residents; Chagos was not made a Mauritius provincial region until 1982. These omissions left 2066 defective and trapped Chagos in a UN defect rather than resolving it by decolonization.