329 Diego Garcia
David Vine is an anthropologist who has written about the people of Chagos who were expelled from their island home, Diego Garcia, to create a US military base.
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• David Vine
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So the US military bases have displaced TWENTY groups of people from their homeland! Isn’t there any recourse for them as a whole batch? Maybe a legal case at the World Court? Or does the US recognize its jurisdiction? Hmmm.