Chagos
In Chagos
Plight of the unpeople
- By John Pilger
- 27 November 2008
Britain happily colludes in the great state crimes of other western governments. Take the law lords' betrayal of the Chagos Islanders
Dear David...
- By Sean Carey
- 18 November 2008
Sean Carey, who has written extensively on the plight of the Chagos islanders, pens an open letter to UK foreign secretary David Miliband
No way home
- By Sean Carey
- 23 October 2008
This week the law lords denied Chagossians their right of the return. Sean Carey joined islanders at the verdict.
The Chagossians fate
- By Sean Carey
- 20 October 2008
On Wednesday the law lords will deliver their verdict on the Chagossians right to return home. Sean Carey looks back on their decades in exile
Chagos and the Law Lords
- By Sean Carey
- 01 July 2008
Witnessing the evidence as the Lord Laws hear the case of the Chagos Islanders - forcibly removed from their homes by the British in the 1960s and 1970s
A future for the Chagossians
- By Sean Carey
- 23 June 2008
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an expert on ethnicity, identity politics and nationalism. Here he talks to fellow academic Sean Carey about UK treatment of the Chagos Islanders
Britain's worst gift
- By Sean Carey
- 23 June 2008
Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase
How the Chagossians could go home
- By Sean Carey
- 09 April 2008
The issue of whether it would actually be viable for the Chagossian people to return to their former island lives
Arrested in Diego Garcia
- By Sean Carey
- 28 March 2008
Sean Carey talks to Pete Bouquet about his arrest for entering the waters around Diego Garcia - the site of a key US military base
The truth about rendition
- By Sean Carey
- 25 February 2008
An apology by David Miliband over the use of UK territory in US rendition flights leaves questions about claims of a secret prison facility on Diego Garcia
Also in Chagos
The Chagossian story
- By Sean Carey
- 22 January 2008
On 23 January Olivier Bancoult gives evidence to UK MPs about the treatment of his people by the British. Here Sean Carey interviews the campaigner
Sailing to Chagos - Q&A
- By Sean Carey
- 10 December 2007
Sam Bouquet is sailing to the Chagos Archipelago to draw attention to the plight of the exiled Chagossian islanders. Sean Carey asks him about his epic journey.
Don't mention the Chagossians
- By Sean Carey
- 20 November 2007
A resolution to the long-running British injustice to the Chagos islanders could have signalled a switch in UK foreign policy
Britain's unethical foreign policy
- By Sean Carey
- 04 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
The story of the Chagossians
- By Vidisha Biswas
- 04 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
Chagos: Dirty tricks and delays
- By Robert Bain
- 24 May 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
John Pilger cheers the islanders fighting dirty tricks
- By John Pilger
- 18 October 2004
More than 30 years ago, the British expelled the inhabitants of Diego Garcia so the US could establish a military base. Now the government's dirty tricks are being challenged in court
