Media: Press and Articles
A library of articles
A Voyage to Chagos
Source: Mauritius Times, 07 December 2007
An email conversation with Sam of The People's Navy...
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No place like home
Source: Ian Davis, Guardian, 29 November 2007
If he has any regard for human rights, Gordon Brown should accept the right
of the Chagossians to return to their islands...
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Don't Mention The Chagossians
Source: Sean Carey, New Statesman, 20 November 2007
A resolution to the long-running British injustice to the Chagos islanders could have signalled a switch in UK foreign policy.
The dawn of the Brown premiership could have heralded a shift in British foreign policy by resolving the long-running injustice to the Chagos Islanders.....
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U.S. Secretly Preparing Diego Garcia For Strike On Iran
Source: Ian Bruce, Scotland Herald, 29 Ocober 2007
The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sources......
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Claims of Secret CIA Jail For Terror Suspects
Source: Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian Unlimited, 19th October, 2007
- Legal charity urges action on Diego Garcia claims
- Prisoners may have been held in ships off coast
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Britain's Unethical Foreign Policy
Source: Sean Carey, New Statesmen, 4th October, 2007
Sean Carey calls on Gordon Brown to right a long standing wrong in Diego Garcia while Vidisha Biswas looks at the story of the exiles.
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The Story Of The Chagossians
Source: Vidisha Biswas, New Statesmen, 4th October, 2007
Vidisha Biswas investigates the story of the Chagossians - forcibly removed from their Indian Ocean island home - and finds, 40 years on, opinion is divided about going back.
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Brown Must Act For The Chagos Islanders
Source: Guardian Unlimited Letters, Saturday June 23, 2007
We applaud Gordon Brown's proposal to review uses of the royal prerogative and hope he won't let government lawyers undermine it.
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Exiled Islanders Win 40-year Battle To Return Home As Judges Accuse UK Of Abuse Of Power
Source: Guardian Unlimited, Thursday 24 May 2007
Hundreds of Indian Ocean islanders who were forcibly deported from their homeland by Britain 40 years ago won a battle yesterday which could see them set sail for an emotional return within days. The court of appeal in London found the British government guilty of "abuse of power" for attempting to prevent the Chagos Islanders from reclaiming land leased from under their feet
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Homeward Bound - Leader
Source: Guardian Unlimited, Thursday May 24 2007
The 2,000 inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago, who were evicted from their homes by Britain 40 years ago to make way for a US airbase on the island of Diego Garcia, called their fight to return "la lutte" (the struggle). For good reason. They were tricked, bullied, in some cases terrorised from their homes. They were forced to leave their possessions behind.
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We Had All We Needed
Source: Gail Champion, Guardian Unlimited, Thursday May 24 2007
In a rusty shack in the poorest corner of Port Louis, the Mauritian capital, Louis Onesimi dreams of once again setting foot on what he calls the "paradise" of the Chagos islands where he was born more than 80 years ago, but fears yesterday's ruling has come too late for him. His gaunt body is racked by coughing, but his eyes brighten when he remembers his homeland.
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Dirty Tricks And Delays
Source: Robert Bain, New Statesman, Thursday May 24 2007
A British court again upholds the right of the Chagossian people to live in their homeland four decades after they were tricked and forced to leave their Indian Ocean Islands.
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Mauritius Says May Leave Commonwealth In Chagos Row
Source: Kate Kelland, The Scotsman, 7 March 2007
The President of Mauritius said on Wednesday his country would be prepared to quit the Commonwealth in its row with Britain over the forced expulsion of the people of the Chagos Islands.
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Scandalous, High Handed... And A Disgrace To Britain
Source: Ishbel Matheson, Times Online, 5 March 2007
Olivier Bancoult was four years old when, holding his mother’s hand tightly, he stepped aboard a boat taking them from their island home across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius.
It was supposed to be a short visit, but as it turned out more than three decades passed before Mr Bancoult set foot again on the island of Peros Banhos in the remote Chagos archipelago.
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