Diego Garcia In Times Of Globalisation

Plot

The "Africa Growth and Opportunity Act" and the use of the US military base on Diego Garcia for bombing civilians are not two isolated phenomena, as this remarkable collection of essays shows. The Republic of Mauritius is still haunted by the history of Diego Garcia, the island whose spirit roams around this enormous Republic's collective consciousness. This book is the first ever full exposure of the collusion of the Mauritian state in the crimes. Britain stole the islands. The USA received stolen goods. Together they tortured the inhabitants. Then they horse-traded sugar and T-shirts while Mauritians of Chagossian origin suffered a veritable genocide. This book brings to the foreground the memory of all that happened. And gives us an archetype of present day capitalist globalization.