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Stealing A Nation reveals the extraordinary story of the secret expulsion of the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean by successive British governments, so that the principal island, Diego Garcia, could be handed to the United States as a major military base. It is from this base that American aircraft have attacked Iraq and Afghanistan.
"This is a shocking, almost incredible story. A government calling itself civilized tricked and expelled its most vulnerable citizens so that it could give their homeland to a foreign power...ministers and their officials then mounted a campaign of deception all the way up to the prime minister." John Pilger
Diego Garcia is America's biggest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony.
In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress, the British government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population -- in secrecy and in breach of the United Nations Charter.
At first, they starved them of essential supplies; then rumors spread that the islands would be bombed; then the people watched their pets gassed to death before they were herded on to boats and dumped in the slums of Mauritius.
Rita, now in her 70s, lost her husband and three of her children following their deportation: "I am a British citizen and they threw us out of our homeland in the name of the Queen."
Lizette, in her 70s, says: "My children died from sadness. When we were forced out, she died, the youngest fell ill and the doctor said to me, 'I can't treat sadness'. What they did to us was no different from the treatment of the slaves."
Charlesia says: "What hurts most is that we were never told what they were doing with our islands. If it had been built for poor people to work, fine. But it's a base for bombers -- and the bombs that fell on Iraq came from our paradise."
John Pilger and producer Christopher Martin have acquired hundreds of astonishing official documents which, in the words of officials and ministers, reveal how the conspiracy was hatched, then covered up.
"The documents show clearly that the conspiracy to expel the population rested on a big lie," says John Pilger. "This claimed that the population were itinerant workers, when the government knew this was a population that went back generations. Most had never left the islands.
"One Foreign Office document is headed, 'Maintaining the fiction'. Another says, 'We propose to certify these people, more or less fraudulently, as belonging somewhere else.' We have secret memos that propose how the government should lie to the world. I have never read anything like them."
Pilger also reveals how the scandal continues today.
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Stealing A Nation-John Pilger (part 3/4)by mysticdave6662,666 views
@GodOfThaDead r u on crack? doesn't matter what color people r, evil knows no bounds. there r just as many corrupt colored people as there r white
luckyponcho 5 days ago
@infinitenostromo damn!! your parents did a bad job
LLMAXG 1 month ago
@copperkipper1 and you sound like a devil, you really are scum. So yes, you are a devil.
infinitenostromo 1 month ago
@sehaalturk Why not just go and fuck yourself?
infinitenostromo 1 month ago
@LLMAXG Who cares about the colour of your skin, cunt!
infinitenostromo 1 month ago
I wouldn't be surprised to have seen these comments in the Sun or other tabloids.
On a positive note, however, it's good to see Pilger reaches larger audiences than I
had anticipated.
sehaalturk 2 months ago
@sehaalturk you are right, its like some people just come on here to talk rubbish, when there is an important matter to discuss. its ludacris, stop bitching and promote the issue people!
LLMAXG 2 months ago
people saying they hate white people or hate Americans or British, well you are as bad as the people on this video. White, black chinese arabian w,e, these crimes are ruthless and disgusting. also people badmouthin white history, look up how many whites have invented life changin products or inventions. not just white but blacks and a myriad of races. Infact look at JOHN PILGER, he is in fact WHITE!! and is trying to get the word out about these atrocities. stop being such close minded imbociles
LLMAXG 2 months ago
Based on the comments written, I would have thought this documentary
was produced by Jerry Springer, not John PIlger.
If this is your caliber, why bother watching Pilger!
sehaalturk 5 months ago