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The island of Diego Garcia is home to a huge US naval base. It boasts golf courses, cinemas, beautiful beaches. It was leased to the Americans by the British in the 1960s - but the Americans required an unpopulated island. So the indigenous population - descendants of the slave trade - were secretly stripped of their British citizenship and forcibly removed to the slums of Mauritius, where they still languish today - those that haven't died of sadness, that is. They still fight for the right to return to their homeland. They even won a high court ruling, but the Blair government simply overturned the decision.
