Stealing a Nation (documentary)

[rAVES]

Hidden from Parliament and the U.S. Congress, the deal was this: the Americans wanted the island, in their words, “swept and sanitized.” An entire population was declared expendable; all of them were to be deported.
Stealing a Nation (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean – secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/stealing-a-nation/

My apologies if this is posted to the wrong section, but having just watched this the outrage I felt needed to be shared.

A very sad story.


rAVES

[niyad]

1. k and r--thank you for sharing this, as I had not seen it before.

I think about the situation that led to the bombing of the rainbow warrior-- the devastation of those islands and their inhabitants--just a small fraction of the horrors committed in our names.