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02826aam a2200349 i 4500 001 D894DAC4EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 201023s2021 enka b6 000 f eng d 020 $a 1912408678 020 $a 9781912408672 035 $a (OCoLC)1222797325 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a i-bi--- 050 4 $a DS349.9.C42 $b G76 2021 082 04 $a 969.700222 $2 23 082 04 $a 741.5941 $2 23 100 1 $a Grosset, Florian, $e author. 245 14 $a The Chagos betrayal : $b how Britain robbed an island and made its people disappear / $c Florian Grosset. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Myriad Editions, $c 2021. 300 $a 103 pages : $b chiefly illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 x 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a During the cold war, the US government sought to establish an overseas military presence in the Indian Ocean. This graphic novel is a shocking account of British complicity in the forced exodus of the Chagos Islanders from their homeland to make that plan possible. Between 1965 and 1973 the inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago were forcibly removed from their homeland and dumped in Mauritius and Seychelles. Diego Garcia, the largest island in the group, was leased to the USA by the United Kingdom to accommodate the largest US military airbase outside the US mainland. The agreement continues until 2036. Florian Grosset's searing account of the eviction, and the harsh life faced by the Chagossians after their displacement, looks back to the first generation of slaves who arrived on the archipelago and the lives of their descendants. It charts the present-day diaspora of Chagossians, their fight for the right to return through protests and court cases, and the different strategies still being used to keep them away from their land. Although in 2016, the British government denied the right of the Chagossians to return to the islands, the islanders continue to fight for the right to return, many of them now to a homeland they never knew. In February 2019, the International Court of Justice ruled that the UK decolonisation process of the Chagos islands was unlawful and that the UK should end its control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which includes a US military base.--amazon.com. 650 0 $a Chagossians $v Comic books, strips, etc. 651 0 $a British Indian Ocean Territory $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Cold War $v Comic books, strips, etc. 651 7 $a British Indian Ocean Territory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206732 655 7 $a Graphic novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726630 655 7 $a Graphic novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014009.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D894DAC4EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search