The UK Chagos Support Association

John Pilger’s excellent film Stealing a Nation is now available to watch in full online via Vimeo.

The film tells the story of the illegal eviction of the Chagos islanders and their fight for justice, up to 2004 when the Blair government used the Royal Prerogative to overrule the courts and stop them returning. Stealing a Nation is a moving and revealing introduction to the shocking story of Chagos.

For a quick summary of developments in the Chagos struggle since 2004, see our history section here.

Videos from the 2006 visit to the Chagos islands can now be seen on YouTube:
- Part one
- Part two
- Part three

A hundred Chagossians took part in the ten-day trip, organised by the Foreign Office, to Diego Garcia and several of the outer islands. CRG leader Olivier Bancoult said at the time: “We maintain our objective of returning to live in our birthplace. We think justice must be done but this first visit was very successful.”

Speaking at a meeting of Chagos Islanders in Crawley, Philippa Gregory, bestselling author and co-patron of the UK Chagos Support Association, talks of being “astounded” when she first read of the Islanders’ struggle, and calls on the Government to bring the injustice to an end.