Map of the Chagos Archipelago, (Foalhavehi)highlighting key geographical features such as Great Chagos Bank, Pitt Bank, and Diego Garcia, with labels in both English and Dhivehi. Decolonization is supposed to undo the map drawn by the last empire, not launder it. The United Kingdom did not invent the southern islands. France did not invent them. Mauritius did not live on them before Dutch and French settlement of Isle de France. What Europe called the Chagos Archipelago alrea