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Today on Flashpoints:
The people of Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands win a bittersweet
victory in the British Courts after having been cleansed from
their way of life some thirty years ago; we’ll feature
an award-winning documentary by legendary filmmaker John Pilger
on the vicious expulsion of this humble people for a military
base;
5:01 PM PST
Stealing a Nation - from the film by John
Pilger
There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a
whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps
us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit
of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the
catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraq's along imperial
history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further
than Diego Garcia.
“This is a shocking, almost incredible story. A government
calling itself civilised tricked and expelled its most vulnerable
citizens so that it could give their homeland to a foreign
power…ministers and their officials then mounted a campaign
of deception all the way up to the prime minister.”
John Pilger
PDF
Guide for the film. Read more on Znet
and Information
Clearinghouse.
Click here
for other Pilger commentaries.
5:40 PM PST
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