UK accepts BIOT migrants

But why has it taken so long?

A group of around 60 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have been held for more than three years on the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago are to be allowed entry to the UK.

In September 2021, they left India on a fishing boat, ambitiously hoping to reach Canada. Ten days later their boat ran into difficulties and they were escorted by the…