Compensation
The British Government had allocated £650,000 "in full and final settlement of HMG's obligations" towards its dispossessed citizens - slightly less than £3000 per head. This money went to the Mauritian government to defray the costs of resettling the Chagossians. The Mauritian government, however, did not recognise it had a duty to resettle the Chagossians.
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