The documentary is about the expulsion of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago, chiefly from Diego Garcia Island, forcibly removed by the British government between 1967 and 1973 to Mauritius, 1,000 miles away, so that the island could be used as an American and British airbase.
The documentary is about the expulsion of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago, chiefly from Diego Garcia Island. More than 2,000 people were, in secrecy and in breach of the United Nations Charter, forcibly removed by the British government between 1967 and 1973 to Mauritius, 1,000 miles away, so that the island could be used as an American and British airbase.