Stealing a Nation DVD
Secrets of Diego Garcia uncovered

The story of Diego Garcia is shocking, almost incredible. A British colony lying in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia is one of 64 unique coral islands of the Chagos Archipelago, a phenomenon of natural beauty, and once of peace.

All this began to end in 1961 when Diego Garcia was marked as the site of, what is today, one of America's largest military bases. At the behest of the American government the British Foreign Office set into action a plan to relocate the islands inhabitants so that a formal lease between the two countries could be signed.

Celebrated journalist John Pilger unearths a powerful conspiracy and reveals the terrible human cost paid by the natives of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands as they were brutally removed from their ancestral home, relocated against their will or understanding and then victimised, forced to live in abject poverty while the British and American governments strengthened their economic and military relationship.

Used to launch recent strikes against Iraq and Afghanistan by the US, Diego Garcia is now occupied by more than 4000 troops, a nuclear dump, a satellite spy station, shopping malls, bars and a golf course with anchorage for 30 warships. The Americans call it Camp Justice! The Chagossians continue to fight so that one day they may again call it home.

'Stealing a Nation’ won the Royal Television Society's top award as Britain's best documentary for 2004-5.

"John Pilger is fearless. He unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth, and tells it as it is..."
Harold Pinter

Format: DVD in PAL format, 56 mins, region code 4 (Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Central & South America, Caribbean, Mexico), rated M