The islands
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Diego Garcia has a large natural lagoon - one of the reasons it was chosen for the military base. [Copyright info] |
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A notice posted on one of the Chagos islands by the BIOT authorities.
KS
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Graffiti left by yachties in a ruined building, now the "Yacht Club".
KS
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Erneste Clement's tombstone, Boddam Island, Salomon. There are many more graves on the island.
KS
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Lagoon, Egmont Island
KS
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Manager's house, Ile du Coin, Peros Banhos Atoll
KS
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Nesting Blue Footed Booby Chick, Middle Brother Island
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Gliding Turtle, North Brother Island
KS
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Three more galleries of photos of Diego Garcia can be seen on the website of marine biologist David Evans. They were taken in 2004 during a marine biological survey.
Exiled islanders
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Patrick Onezine, 44, a manual labourer from the Salomon Islands, with his daughter in Roiche Bois, a suburb of Port Louis, Mauritius, Nov 2005.
PQ
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Marie-Veronique Elfrasier, 89, from Diego Garcia, at a day centre for the elderly in Pointe Aux Sables, a suburb of Port Louis, Mauritius, Nov 2005.
PQ
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Robert Lemaitre, 82, a retired docker and fisherman from the Salomon Islands, with his grandson in Roiche Bois, suburb of Port Louis, Mauritius, Nov 2005.
PQ
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Living conditions in Port Louis
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In a yard outside a Chagossian home, a little girl plays among rubbish and open drains. There is nowhere else to play.
KW
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These leaves are all that Jenny was able to gather for dinner.
KW
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About ten people sleep in this one room, under a leaky roof.
KW
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In this yard, building materials are mixed up with the rubbish, because there is no money left to finish building.
KW
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Cassis is built at the foot of Signal Mount.
KW
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Living conditions in Cassis.
PH
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Living conditions in Cassis.
PH
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Chagossian housing in Cassis. Most of the homes are built of corrugated iron, which rusts in the wet.
SJ
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Culture and politics
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Charlézia Alexis, a Chagossian singer. Photo courtesy of L'Express
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Chagossian dance group Tambour Chagos perform at an anti-poverty conference in Mauritius, May 2004.
SJ
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The Chagossian Memorial, erected in 2003. "In testimony to the uprooting and exile of the Chagossians who arrived at this quay between 1965 and 1973. God carried us as far as our arrival here, He will fight for us." Chagossian artist Clement Siatous did the paintings on either side of the memorial.
SJ
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Posters on the streets of Cassis, Port Louis: "Reunify the Chagos archipelago and all the other islands with the Mauritian Republic", "Bush and Blair are using our land to kill Iraqi children", "Stop using Diego Garcia for torture and imprisonment"
SJ
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A Lalit protest outside the US Embassy in Port Louis, March 2004.
SJ
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A Chagossian woman watches young Chagossian musicians at the Chagossian Cultural Festival
SJ
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Copyright for all these photos is owned by the photographers, who are...
PH - Paul Heaton - psheaton@onetel.com
SJ - Steffen Johannessen - steffen.johannessen@googlemail.com
PQ - Phuc Quach - phucviquach@yahoo.com
KS - Karin Sinniger - kbsinniger@yahoo.com
KW - Kate Walters - katewalters_8@hotmail.com
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