Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia

摘要: Between 1968 and 1973, the governments of United States Britain forcibly removed indigenous people Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago to create a military base on island Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion, people—known as Chagossians, who are descendants enslaved Africans indentured Indians—have sued two gain right return reparations. The islanders have won three British High Court rulings finding expulsion illegal under U.K. law recently appeared before House Lords, Britain's highest court, for final showdown over return. Tracing history Chagossians' struggle, this article discusses larger significance people's claims others in African diaspora around world, including responsibility effects Anglo–American foreign policy reparations demands by peoples. argues that struggle ultimately represents challenge t...