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|title=Freedom Next Time

|author=John Pilger

|genre=Politics and Society

|summary=Unrelenting as ever, Pilger presents you with the kind of mirror into which you are afraid to look. The usual mix of careful, meticulous research, eye witness reports and face-to-face interviews, this book should be required reading for anyone who thinks, even for an instant, that might equals right.

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|borrow=Yes

|pages=400

|publisher=Black Swan

|isbn=978-0552773324

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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.

My thanks to the good people at Transworld for sending this important book.

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