Stealing a Nation

Stealing a Nation is a 2004 Granada Television documentary about the BritishAmerican clandestine operation that saw the expulsion of the native Chagossian population of Diego Garcia and neighbouring islands. More than 2,000 people were exiled to Mauritius between 1967 and 1973, so that Diego Garcia could become a United States airbase see depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago. The film contains a series of interviews with native Chagossians, who have been deprived of their right of return and forced to live in abject poverty. Stealing a Nation was written and directed by John Pilger, and produced and directed by Christopher Martin reconstruction footage was directed by Sean Crotty.

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