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Article: Fighting for Man Friday.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2004
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Byline: PETER PATERSON
Stealing A Nation: A Special Report By John Pilger (ITV1)
BRITAIN'S role in the expulsion of the tiny population of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to make room for the huge American military base of Diego Garcia was certainly a shameful episode.
It all happened 40 years ago, but last night John Pilger was right in his personal documentary, Stealing A Nation, to condemn the subterfuge, evasion and secrecy with which the 2,000 islanders were shipped off to the slums of Mauritius, 1,000 miles away, where they were left, almost literally, to rot.
This was an appalling way to treat people for whom Britain had ...