Sean Carey
Articles by sean carey
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Global Issues
Chagos and the Law Lords
- 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
Asia
A future for the Chagossians
- 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
Asia
Britain's worst gift
- 23 June 2008
- 1 comment
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
UK Politics
How the Chagossians could go home
- 09 April 2008
- 4 comments
The issue of whether it would actually be viable for the Chagossian people to return to their former island lives
World Affairs
Arrested in Diego Garcia
- 28 March 2008
- 3 comments
Sean Carey talks to Pete Bouquet about his arrest for entering the waters around Diego Garcia - the site of a key US military base
Politics
The truth about rendition
- 25 February 2008
- 2 comments
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
Life & Society
The sting in the Mistry tale
- 08 February 2008
The dogmatic free-market policies of economist Percy Mistry threaten universal healthcare in Mauritius
World Affairs
The Chagossian story
- 22 January 2008
- 12 comments
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
World Affairs
Sailing to Chagos - Q&A
- 10 December 2007
- 1 comment
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.
World Affairs
Don't mention the Chagossians
- 20 November 2007
- 10 comments
A resolution to the long-running British injustice to the Chagos islanders could have signalled a switch in UK foreign policy
