Neither confirm nor deny: WikiLeaks evidence and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations in the judicial review of the Chagos Marine Protected Area (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | Laura Jeffery |
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| Institution: | Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, where she holds an ESRC Research Fellowship focusing on debates about environmental knowledge in the context of the Chagos Archipelago. She is author of Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced displacement and onward migration (Manchester University Press, 2011). |
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| Abstract: | The Chagos Islanders have faced various legal barriers in their campaign for the right of return to the Chagos Archipelago. Here, Laura Jeffery presents one more twist in this long winding road, namely how the courts regard WikiLeaks evidence revealing how British politicians hatched plans to turn these islands into a nature reserve, thus effectively maintaining the status quo of the existing no‐return policy. |
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