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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
10 Oct 2003 03:36:09 AM |
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OT: No place called home |
No place called home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1059863,00.html
Britain is putting US interests on Diego Garcia above the right of
Chagossians to return to their islands
Mark Curtis
Friday October 10, 2003
The Guardian
There are people and there are unpeople. Afghan and Iraqi victims of
Blair's wars count among the latter - lives expendable in the pursuit
of western power. Yet there is a group of unpeople who have been even
more forgotten and they were yesterday knocked for six, not by "smart"
British bombs but by smart government lawyers.
The story begins in 1968, when the Chagossians were flung off their
homeland islands in the Indian Ocean to make way for a US military
base. Some were tricked into leaving on the promise of a free voyage;
others physically removed. The Chagos islands include Diego Garcia,
from which US bombers have attacked Iraq and Afghanistan, and where
al-Qaida suspects are being held in circumstances even more secret
than in Cuba.
Diego Garcia
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