One way of understanding the exile of the Chagos Islanders and their inability to return to their ancestral land is through a reading of the case from a perspective of post-colonial legal scholarship. Chagossians have strong legal rights to land and remedies of compensation and return through a purposive application of the international legal definition of Indigenous, Magna Carta right to abode and international human rights law that could address their dispossession. Yet, the inability of those rights to be meaningfully applied has been constrained because of the post-colonial way they are legally interpreted, creating a legal vacuum in which basic fairness and substantive equality have been routinely compromised. Drawing attention to the continued legal denial of return in the context of decolonisation, ongoing colonialism and the rule of law makes sense of the legal record and explains the expulsion of the islanders despite the moral merits of return.

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查戈斯案的后殖民法律方法和土地权利规范的（不）应用

理解查戈斯岛民流亡和无法返回祖籍的一种方式是从后殖民法律学术的角度解读此案。查戈斯人通过有目的地应用土著人的国际法律定义、大宪章的居留权和国际人权法，拥有强大的土地合法权利以及补偿和返回的补救措施，可以解决他们的剥夺问题。然而，由于后殖民时期的法律解释方式，这些权利无法得到有意义的应用受到限制，造成了法律真空，在这种真空中，基本的公平和实质性平等经常受到损害。提请注意在非殖民化背景下继续合法拒绝返回，