The Advisory Opinion of The International Court of Justice on the Chagos Archipelago: An Anticipatory Analysis (Part I, II & III)
Decolonisation revisited and the obligation not to divide a Non-Self-Governing Territory
1. Introduction A central question in the current ICJ advisory proceedings on Chagos is whether obligations existed to prevent Britain from separating the islands from the non-self-governing territory of Mauritius in 1965 prior to its independence in 1968. The Chagos archipelago is a group of small islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean, 2,200 km...
