| The UK government established a marine reserve in April 2010 to mixed reactions from Chagossians. |
| Regardless of population numbers, the Chagossians had to be removed from the island before the base could be constructed. |
| On 22 October 2008, the British government won an appeal to the House of Lords regarding the royal prerogative used to continue excluding the Chagossians from their homeland. |
| Chagossians have since engaged in activism to return to the archipelago, claiming that their forced expulsion and dispossession were illegal. |
