In 1965, the united kingdom excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in reference to the founding of a US army facility at the island of Diego Garcia. as a result, the population of the Chagos Islands have been secretly exiled to Mauritius, the place they grew to become chronically impoverished. This booklet considers the resonance of foreign legislations for the Chagos Islanders. It advances the argument that BIOT constitutes a 'Non-Self-Governing Territory' pursuant to the provisions of bankruptcy XI of the UN constitution and for the broader reasons of overseas legislation. moreover, the e-book explores the level to which definitely the right of self-determination, indigenous land rights and a variety of tasks contained in appropriate human rights treaties may well aid the Chagossian correct to come back to BIOT. despite the fact that, the rights of the Chagos Islanders are premised at the assumption that the united kingdom possesses a legitimate sovereignty declare over BIOT. The proof means that this declare is questionable and it truly is disputed by means of Mauritius. therefore, the Mauritian declare threatens to compromise the entitlements of the Chagos Islanders in admire of BIOT as a question of foreign legislation. This ebook illustrates the continuing difficulties bobbing up from foreign law's endorsement of the territorial integrity of colonial devices for the aim of decolonisation on the cost of the countervailing claims of colonial self-determination via non-European peoples that inhabited a similar colonial unit. The publication makes use of the competing claims to the Chagos Islands to illustrate the necessity for a extra nuanced method of the solution of sovereignty disputes caused by the legacy of ecu colonialism.