Isn't the .IO domain a lot more controversial with the UK expelling the population of the islands? https://www.thewebmaster.com/archived/io-tld-top-level-domai...
It looks like a politically isolated and weakened UK government has had to relent, and will finally hand over the territory to Mauritius. It's possibly the only positive outcome of the Brexit saga.
One might also note that the Chagossians who lived in the British Indian Ocean Territory never actually owned any land there, nor were they self-sufficient in terms of food.[0] Also, the Chagossians were given[1] severance pay for their work there, and compensation for starting a new life in the Seychelles or Mauritius, back in the 1970s. Then, in the 1980s, the UK government paid out millions more in reparations[2], and this year the government offered them British citizenship too.[3]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_expulsion_of_the_Chagos...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_expulsion_of_the_Chagos...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/chagos-islands...
Also, the status of the British Indian Ocean Territory is not a clear historical wrong, or at least it's only wrong due to being a by-product of the original policy of colonialism. Legally speaking, "Council of Ministers [of Mauritius] confirmed agreement to the detachment of Chagos Archipelago"[1], so the objections to this policy are based on the fact that Mauritius was not fully independent from the UK at the time (and therefore under duress), and that a country can't legally be split in two unless both pieces agree (and no one asked the Chagossians specifically if they were happy with the arrangement).
However, given the non-viability of the territory as a self-supporting entity, and assuming that Mauritius would not have wanted to support the unemployed population there after Britain closed the plantations, it's likely that much the same outcome would have happened even if all of our 21st century principles had been followed back in the 1960s. The only difference would have been that the Chagossians wouldn't have received their compensation, reparations, and British citizenship.
[0] https://warontherocks.com/2021/07/overcoming-the-diego-garci...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago_sovereignty...
Only or not only, it's wrong.
> assuming that Mauritius would not have wanted to support the unemployed population
As they say, "when you assume you make etc etc..."
It's a silly assumption.
It's a bit like a country supporting a whaling station on an island[0] and then later evacuating the island rather than continuing to pour resources in to maintain the presence of the now-unemployed workers.
For additional context, I should point out that the UK government did worse things to an island much closer to home[1] (albeit an island without any human residents).
Even the linked document is more of "Huh, what's this in the draw? Anyone using it?"