Flag: Diego Garcia 🇩🇬
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The flag of Diego Garcia — the main island of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and site of a major joint US-UK military base in the central Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia's strategic location made it militarily valuable, but the British Government controversially expelled the indigenous Chagossian population in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for the base.

The Chagossians' right to return remains a contentious legal and human rights issue. Used for discussions of colonial displacement, military base politics, Indian Ocean strategic geography, and the ongoing Chagossian diaspora rights movement.