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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: A Dreadful Piece of British Colonial History Has A Chance To Be Corrected | Philippe Sands
Description: Diego Garcia is a small Island in the dead center of the Indian Ocean that is part of the Chagos Archipelago. In the early 1970s, the United Kingdom, which controlled the Islands, leased Diego Garcia to the United States for use as a military base. However, in the process of transferring Diego Garcia to the US, the United Kingdom forcibly expelled the island's native population and that of the surrounding Chagos Archipelego. Thousands of Chagossians were exiled from their homeland, most of whom were forced to Mauritius, which is over 2,000 kilometers away. The forced deportation of Chagossians wa...