Chagos Islands, a solution?

[King Billy]

We bought and paid for the Islands as part of an independence deal.

UK paid Mauritius for separating the Chagos islands from Mauritius as part of UK agreeing to Mauritius' independence from UK.
They did so with the intention of building a military base on Diego Garcia.
And then evicted all the indigenous inhabitants from all the Chagos islands.

 

[King Billy]

We should have at least bargained it for release of the two idiots on their touring holiday.

They may become collateral damage if US bombs the Iranian prisons.

 

[King Billy]

Chagos Islands are nowhere near Mauritius. It is a weird historical happenstance that Mauritius has ended up with them.

All part of the former French Indian overseas territory.
Mauritius used to be called Isle de France, and administered the Chago Islands.
All cede to Britain following the Napoleonic wars.
The current agreement transfers sovereignty back to Mauritius with a 99 year lease on Diego Garcia.

 

[King Billy]

Sri Lanka isn't happy about the deal for obvious reasons

Those obvious reasons are the detention by UK, of Sri Lankan migrants on Diego Garcia, who have been left in a legal and political limbo