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Stealing a Nation - The Plight of the Chagos Islands VS the United States (2004)

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  • čas přidán 11. 11. 2017
  • Stealing a Nation is a 2004 Granada Television documentary about the British-American clandestine operation that saw the expulsion of the native Chagossian population of Diego Garcia and neighbouring islands. More than 2,000 people were exiled to Mauritius between 1967 and 1973, so that Diego Garcia could become a United States airbase (see depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago). The film contains a series of interviews with native Chagossians, who have been deprived of their right of return and forced to live in abject poverty. Stealing a Nation was written and directed by John Pilger, and produced and directed by Christopher Martin; reconstruction footage was directed by Sean Crotty.

Komentáře • 69

  • @hvideos2832
    @hvideos2832 Před 3 lety +41

    I feel so angry at the UK and US governments for all the torment and atrocities they've committed and gotten away with! This is disgusting! Those poor people had to leave their home and livelihood in such an inhumane and unethical way! They are a community still suffering today! I just wish more people know about this and there is awareness! They deserve JUSTICE!! I'm ashamed of the UK, more needs to be done for the Chagossian people.

    • @MohamedEzekiel
      @MohamedEzekiel Před rokem +1

      They will get justice, we all are waiting with popcorn. For all the injustice they created in this world, “O you who believe, be upright for God, and be bearers of witness with justice!” [Quran, 5:8]

  • @peter.a.tanner
    @peter.a.tanner Před 3 lety +14

    It happened for centuries and continued through Iraq, etc. Living in UK, we were never told that the empire was stolen. It was portrayed as an education for savages. The mentality continues, don't think otherwise.

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Před 2 lety

      Cecil Rhodes spirit is alive and well

    • @ehjo4904
      @ehjo4904 Před rokem

      While they fighting the Nazis the Brits were oppressing the people they have colonized. We should not forget this western propaganda

  • @TheKamikazenaz
    @TheKamikazenaz Před 2 lety +7

    John Pilger.. a great beacon of light and truth.

  • @AncientOne222
    @AncientOne222 Před 3 lety +9

    That old guy sat there and called the forced removal of indigenous people a small matter smh he is pure evil.

  • @DavidS-pw5gd
    @DavidS-pw5gd Před 4 lety +10

    I am HORRIFIED by this documentary!

  • @tomrepton6786
    @tomrepton6786 Před 4 lety +9

    ‘..he’s not that sort of person...’?! Not the sort of person to write what he wrote thinking no one would read it? Sounds like he IS that kind of person and the UK government is a disgrace for this too. Ashamed of my country for this.

  • @seecharan
    @seecharan Před 6 lety +10

    Wow thanks for posting! I remember seeing this decades ago, it is John Pilger, the award winning journalist. He recently completed brilliant documentary and written report on 'The Coming War on China' , US aggression in the China seas.

  • @thctoki
    @thctoki Před 4 lety +6

    this made me a fan of Pilger

  • @maxxamiss5386
    @maxxamiss5386 Před rokem +3

    If there were any justice real justice this and the many more should be taught at schools. Education and knowledge is power. The power they fear the most

  • @Beez187
    @Beez187 Před 2 lety +2

    And the audacity they have to call us black people savages. SMDH. If I ever hear anyone call me a savage EVER again, its gonna be onsite.

    • @okeydokey9693
      @okeydokey9693 Před rokem

      They call us everything they trully are. Not all ,but the elites.

  • @bradbradshaw7995
    @bradbradshaw7995 Před 4 lety +3

    This disgraceful behaviour has bothered me for years !

  • @philomenaa1939
    @philomenaa1939 Před 7 měsíci +1

    😢😢😢😢
    I’m out of words.

  • @farooqahmed-md8fg
    @farooqahmed-md8fg Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thank God Almighty that there will be an account and full justice will be given to the oppressed and the heartless imperialist US and UK will pay!

  • @rafaeljuniorsierra-9708
    @rafaeljuniorsierra-9708 Před 5 měsíci

    NO CRIMES AGAINST ANY PEOPLES ANYWHERE ON THIS EARTH ARE "A SMALL MATTER." If you, or anyone else thinks this way you are "ALL INSANE."

  • @Msbuddy08sej
    @Msbuddy08sej Před 2 lety +3

    I can't watch this. Vile. Just vile. I'm so sorry.

  • @bobmars8644
    @bobmars8644 Před 5 lety +7

    sad.... but they are British! THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME THO!

    • @OKA4LIVE
      @OKA4LIVE Před 4 lety +1

      They shouldn't even be British.

    • @hvideos2832
      @hvideos2832 Před 3 lety +4

      @@OKA4LIVE You're right, they shouldn't. Because Britain should never have interrupted their way of life and destroyed their land to make way for a military base! These people are left without a home, with limited support from the government. It's now the responsibility of the UK Gov to compensate for the 50 years of trauma inflicted on the Chagossians.

  • @lautrey6531
    @lautrey6531 Před rokem +1

    I wonder if there ever was support for those people from the supposed Royalty rulers in London? To my knowledge they were silent. For the USA we could not expect anything good from them. How can the world ever have any respect towards such systems?

  • @lenndookun847
    @lenndookun847 Před 4 lety +3

    Sad sad sad 😢

  • @deedee8568
    @deedee8568 Před 4 lety +4

    US and English arrogance.

  • @adrianc1264
    @adrianc1264 Před 2 lety +1

    James Schlesinger being extremely candid about the way the British and American governments have behaved in geo politics (and still do today) . And refreshingly honest in pulling up the disingenuous, self-styled "justice warrior" Pilger for his motives in taking up this particular cause (and trying to make it a race issue rather than the Anglo-American world domination one)

    • @sternocleidosoundsgood
      @sternocleidosoundsgood Před 2 lety +1

      Do you honestly think if the people of the Chagros Islands were white with British heritage, speaking English and having family in Britain, they would have been treated like this? It’s not that the politicians said „oh they are not white, we hate them“ but they have no political capital because they are not white British people, so the government knew no one would care and they could do treat the Chagrosians as less than human because they would face no repercussions for it.
      Race is not a one dimensional issue. Its also about power and influence.

    • @adrianc1264
      @adrianc1264 Před 2 lety

      @@sternocleidosoundsgood Again, you're making a simple race issue out of it and missing the geo political point. This Island was needed for the objectives of the American military complex and if *any* racial group had been in the way they would have been dealt with unforgivingly and if necessary in a far more brutal way, and the media would have been silent on it as the media is universally controlled by these government agencies.
      To think that 'whites' get better treatment from the power blocks is to ignore history and to pander to critical r a c e theory pawns who serve said blocks in distracting people from what's going on with a false, highly sensitive, dichotomy such as race

    • @24tommyst
      @24tommyst Před 2 lety

      LOL shut up, dude. If it was so normal then THEY WOULDN'T HAVE FUCKING LIED ABOUT IT. Think for yourself for once.

    • @dthomaswrites
      @dthomaswrites Před 2 lety +1

      @@adrianc1264 Are there any examples in history where UK or US did such a thing to a predominantly white community? Asking to learn not to rebuke.

    • @adrianc1264
      @adrianc1264 Před 2 lety

      @@dthomaswrites Lots. The Irish famine; conditions created for potato blight to decimate the population, up to one million starved to death. The Scottish Highland clearances, 70,000+ thrown off their land, many massacred. All for politically expedient motives

  • @ibrahimhaneef6684
    @ibrahimhaneef6684 Před rokem

    Will it happen

  • @cinnamonstar808
    @cinnamonstar808 Před 5 lety +2

    4:59 wait, dogs can fish?

    • @hvideos2832
      @hvideos2832 Před 3 lety +4

      Is that all you took from this?

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Před 3 lety

      @@hvideos2832 no.

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Před 2 lety +2

      of course they can... they descend from wolves.. wolves catch fish too... especially in rivers. dogs have hunted basically everything humans eat... that's part of why they are called "man's best friend".

  • @farooqahmed-md8fg
    @farooqahmed-md8fg Před 6 měsíci

    How could humans do this?

  • @kamaaiiyah8768
    @kamaaiiyah8768 Před 3 lety +3

    Who else is here because of Watchman & Deborah's shabbat message on lying wonders in the earth?

  • @luciousgainous7430
    @luciousgainous7430 Před 3 lety

    Those people always was on the island. They did come from Africa or India

    • @ehjo4904
      @ehjo4904 Před rokem

      Same for the rest of humanity !

  • @adrianc1264
    @adrianc1264 Před 2 lety +1

    haha yeah, the UN will help ...

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Před 2 lety

      US and UK never really obey the UN. they believe they are above...

  • @rennhoalohaloren6211
    @rennhoalohaloren6211 Před rokem

    And now Maui...