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This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a strategic U.S. military base. Initially part of colonial Mauritius, Chagos was integrated into a new colony named the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. In 1966, Great Britain transferred control of Diego Garcia, the largest Chagos island, to the Americans under a fifty year lease. The expulsions which followed were designed to satisfy the U.S. demand for an unpopulated territory. The Chagossians were thus forced to resettle in Mauritius and the Seychelles, where livelihoods are poor and marginalized. The Chagossians are currently engaged in a campaign seeking right of return to the archipelago and recognition as a people forced to live in diaspora.
Contents
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ......................................................................................vii
Timeline .........................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... xv
Redundancy on the Instalment Plan: Chagossians and the Right to be Called a People ........................1
Sandra J.T.M. Evers & Marry Kooy
From the Birth of the Ilois to the "Footprint of Freedom": A History of Chagos and the Chagossians ............11
David Vine
Clement Siatous: Chagossian Artist in Exile ............................................37
"Native Ilois of Chagos": Excerpts from the Narratives of Dussercle (1933-36) .............41
Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing
Atman Ramchalaon: Seeking the Facts .....................................................59
The Making of the Chagos Affair: Myths and Reality ............................61
Jocelyn Chan Low
Charlesia Alexis: The Struggle of the Chagossian Women .....................81
Sorrow, Sadness, and Impoverishment: The Lives of Chagossians in Mauritius .............83
Laura Jeffery and David Vine
Bernadette Dugasse: Born in Diego Garcia December 1956 ...............................................103
Chagossians Twice Forgotten: Exile in the Seychelles ..........................105
David Vine
Allen Vincatassin: Negotiating Life in Mauritius and the UK..............125
Responsibility and Redress: Th e Chagossian Litigation in the English Courts ..............127
Stephen Allen
Olivier Bancoult: Leading the Way Back to Chagos ..............................153
Self-Determination in the Post-Colonial Era: Prospects for the Chagossians ...................157
Maureen Tong
Aurélie Marie-Lisette Talate: Young Again in Diego .............................181
Cleaning for the Dead: The Chagossian Pilgrimage to their Homeland ........................183
Steffen F. Johannessen
Perspectives of a UK Member of Parliament: "Chagos, Just Plain Injustice" ...............217
'A Lost People'? Chagossian onward Migration and Echoes of Marginalisation in Crawley
Laura Jeffery ........................................................................................ 219
Reverend Mario Li Hing: Committed to the Chagossian Cause .............................239
Longing and Belonging in Real Time: How Chagossian Children in Mauritius Imagine the Chagos Islands ....241
Sandra J.T.M. Evers
About the Authors .....................................................................................273
Bibliography ...............................................................................................277
Index ...........................................................................................................289
