December 17th - "Stealing a Nation" screening

'Stealing a Nation', John Pilger's latest doco, will screen at 9:40pm this
coming Friday (17th) on TV One in the Foreign Correspondent programme. More
Info:
http://pilger.carlton.com/home
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/133384
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/133386
On October 6, the ITV Network showed John Pilger's 'Stealing a Nation'. This
is a shocking, almost incredible story, largely hidden from history, of the
secret expulsion of the entire population of the Chagos Islands, a British
colony in the Indian Ocean, by the British Government, so that the main
island, Diego Garcia, could be given to America as a military base. More
than 2,000 people were dumped a thousand miles away, in the slums of
Mauritius, and received little in compensation. Their fortunes changed in
the 1990s with the discovery of a bundle of official files, which reveal a
conspiracy between the Foreign Office in London and officials in Washington.