?? UK: Chagos Islands descendants seek citizenship | Al Jazeera English

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The UK government has recently apologised for the way many elderly people from the Caribbean were threatened with deportation and denied public services.

The so-called Windrush scandal opened up a debate about Britain’s relationship with its former colonies.

Now the descendants of people from the Chagos Islands hope a proposed new law can grant them British citizenship.

Al Jazeera’s Nadim Baba reports.

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