The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were expelled from their island to make way for a U.S. military base. Lyn Gardner about his story became a play
How would you feel if you left the UK for their annual leave and said she could never return? This is what happened to the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, the only inhabited island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a remote colony of the United Kingdom, officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory.
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the government of Harold Wilson wanted to make an agreement with the United States, seeking a military base in the Indian Ocean to monitor Soviet activity. Diego Garcia was perfect. In exchange for their leaving, the British government has done a lot of goodwill in the United States and a significant financial contribution to the program of Polaris submarines. Displaced Chagossians, raised in a largely barter, nothing. Kreol a word about how they feel.
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- unbearable sadness
Since late 1960, leaving the islands for the treatment of shopping or medical emergencies are often prescribed for his return. In 1973, all inhabitants of Diego Garcia, the descendants of slaves brought here in the 18th century to work in coconut plantations, had been forcibly removed - dumped in Mauritius and Seychelles , where they were left to their fate /
- "My interest has always been marginalized, the little people," says Jackson. "Very often the homeless are considered addicts or alcoholics. Their homelessness is seen as the result of a default or a series of misfortunes and mistakes. We forget that the homeless often arises from geopolitical changes, and this is the case here. "
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