In the 1960s and 70s, British and American governments collaborated to secretly expel the entire population of the Chagos islands, with the aim of giving the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US as a major military base.
Stealing a Nation
A gripping tale of a decades-old conspiracy unfolds, revealing the covert orchestration by British and American authorities of the mass exodus from the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean during the 1960s and 1970s.
