Diego Garcia. Chagoans, "They Died Of Sadness"

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John Pilger exposes the inhumane and shameful actions of successive British Governments in their treatment of the dispossessed indigenous population of Diego Garcia, the main island of the Chagos group.


The film is testimony to just how little people are worth when the "Land of Hope and Glory" colludes with the "Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free" in pursuing global expansion.

The conduct of the British to this day still can only be described as sordid.
Fifty five minutes.




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STEALING A NATION (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.Stealing a Nation has won both the Royal Television Society's top award as Britain's best documentary in 2004-5, and a 'Chris Award' at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival.