The untold story of Deigo Garcia

[struggle4progress]

PM - Tuesday, 19 May , 2009 18:30:00
Reporter: Mark Colvin

DAVID VINE: Diego Garcia was one of what looks like to be now more than two-dozen CIA black sites, secret prisons where the United States under the direction of Dick Cheney and President Bush had detained suspected terrorists ... The history goes back to the late 1950s when officials in the US Pentagon and especially in the US Navy began looking for island bases around the world ... US and British officials crafted what was a public relations plan in the late 1960s and early 1970s to represent the Chagossians, as the Indigenous people are known, to the world as migrant labourers or transient workers, rather than the Indigenous people that they are, having lived in the islands for five generations or more ... Less than half of Diego Garcia has actually been used by the base. The entire eastern portion of the island is free of military activities and people could live there ... But both the British and the US Governments have been very firm in their position that the Chagossians can't go back to any of the islands ...

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2575267.htm

[Fovea]

1. Sing it, Paul Simon...

"It was the myth of fingerprints"

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

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[gula]

3. Plus ca change ...n/t