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LONDON – Suzelle Baptiste she was seven when the British told her and her family to leave. Yet the islands Chagos they had been the home of the woman and her relatives for generations. Now, after 50 years, Suzelle is returning to the archipelago, for the first time without the usual British escort, and begins to cry: “This is such an important moment for me,” she tells the BBC who has followed her and other Chagosians. on board.