A court ruling against colonial exploitation could threaten a strategic U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean. Indigenous advocates say it’s about time.
Diego Garcia: The “Unsinkable Carrier” Springs a Leak
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Chagos Islands
An International Court Is Investigating the U.S. and U.K’s Mass Expulsion of Indigenous Islanders
Long ignored by the media, the people of Chagos struggle relentlessly to reclaim islands that the U.S. and U.K. stole for a military base.
‘Everyone Has the Right to Live on Their Island. Why Not Us?’
Thousands of miles from Standing Rock, in the Indian Ocean, another indigenous group understands what it’s like to be displaced and ignored by the U.S. government.
Atoning for Washington’s ‘Mass Kidnapping’ in the Indian Ocean
The U.S. and UK governments forcibly expelled an entire population of islanders to make way for a military base. It’s time to let them come home.
Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland
Over a weekend of memorials, I was remembering a friend who died of a broken heart. Her death certificate may not say so, but she did. Aurélie Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren—profound sorrow. Madame Talate died of sagren because the U.S. and British governments exiled her and the rest of her Chagossian people from their homeland in the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago to create a secretive military base on Chagos’ largest island, Diego Garcia.