Just Handed Back What We Stole

The Chagos Islands had been in the news recently as the UK plans to hand them over to Mauritius which makes it sound as if we are doing it out of the kindness of our hearts but handing them back would be more appropriate because it wasn't given to us, we took it.
As most people woulds struggle to find it on a map, look for the Indian Ocean and work your way down from India and there it is south of the Maldives in the British Indian Ocean Territory and that gives you and idea of how we ended up with it.
Originally part of France, we took it off them in the early 19th Century and in the early 1970's, Britain forcibly expelled the natives at the request of the United States as they wanted to build a military base  there and forcibly transported 2,000 people to Mauritius and the Seychelles and prevented them from re-entering the islands   
Mauritius claimed the Chagos Archipelago as part of Mauritius and in 2019 The International Court of Justice agreed and stated that the UK had an obligation to return the islands to Mauritius hence where we are today with the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius agreement expected ratified some time this year.
Under the terms of the deal, the Chagos Islands are immediately leased back to the UK for the next 99 years and Mauritius will receive an annual rent of £165 million from the UK for the first three years, followed by £120 million annually for the subsequent ten years. Thereafter, the £120 million annual payment.
There you have it then, we are giving back which was there's anyway but as for the people forcibly removed...they remain forcibly removed, another consequence of the awful British Empire and the awful American militirisation of the Planet.