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Groundwater --- Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory) --- British Indian Ocean Territory

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"An account of the making of modern international law and one woman's fight for justice"--

Population transfers --- Deportation --- Chagossians --- Deportees --- Chagossians. --- History. --- British Indian Ocean Territory --- Great Britain --- History --- Colonization. --- Colonies

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This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a strategic U.S. military base. Initially part of colonial Mauritius, Chagos was integrated into a new colony named the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. In 1966, Great Britain transferred control of Diego Garcia, the largest Chagos island, to the Americans under a fifty year lease. The expulsions which followed were designed to satisfy the U.S. demand for an unpopulated territory. The Chagossians were thus forced to resettle in Mauritius and the Seychelles, where livelihoods are poor and marginalized. The Chagossians are currently engaged in a campaign seeking right of return to the archipelago and recognition as a people forced to live in diaspora.

Chagossians --- Population transfers --- Refugees --- History. --- Chagossians. --- Geschichte 1968-1973. --- Geschichte. --- British Indian Ocean Territory --- History

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"Retour à Lemberg" et "La Filière", deux enquêtes historiques couronnées de succès, ont imposé Philippe Sands comme l'écrivain de l'histoire des droits de l'homme. C'est en tant que représentant de l'île Maurice devant la Cour internationale de justice de La Haye qu'il lutte activement pour la reconnaissance d'une injustice criante, celle qui frappe l'archipel des Chagos, la "dernière colonie" britannique dans l'océan Indien. Dans les années 1960, la Grande-Bretagne sépare Diego Garcia et les cinquante-quatre autres îles des Chagos de la toute jeune République indépendante de Maurice. La raison secrète : offrir aux États-Unis une base militaire sur Diego Garcia, la plus grande île de l'archipel. Les Chagossiens qui y demeuraient depuis le XVIIIe siècle sont chassés brutalement de leur foyer et contraints à l'exil, au mépris des mesures internationales d'après-guerre en matière de décolonisation. Parmi eux, Liseby Élysé, une jeune mariée, enceinte de son premier enfant. Depuis cinquante ans, Liseby Élysé n'a eu de cesse de se battre pour pouvoir retourner sur son île natale. C'est ce combat que Philippe Sands retrace, en mettant en lumière les horreurs persistantes de l'impérialisme britannique, les crimes racistes dont Mme Élysé et ses compatriotes chagossiens ont été les victimes, et le long cheminement du droit international moderne pour que soit reconnu et jugé ce crime contre l'humanité.

Population transfers - Chagossians --- Chagossians - History --- Chagossians - Biography --- Deportees - British Indian Ocean Territory --- Deportees - Mauritius --- Deportees - Seychelles --- Deportation - British Indian Ocean Territory --- British Indian Ocean Territory - History - 20th century --- British Indian Ocean Territory - Colonization --- Great Britain - Colonies - Africa - History - 20th century --- Transferts de population --- Réfugiés --- Colonies britanniques --- Droit. --- Chagos (îles) --- Population transfers --- Deportation --- Déportation --- Refugees --- Self-determination, National --- Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes --- Civil rights --- Droits de l'homme --- Chagossians. --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonies --- History. --- Histoire --- Réfugiés --- Chagos (îles) --- Droit

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Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the fabulous tales that provide an alibi for archaic sovereign acts that persist in the present. The United Kingdom's depopulation of islands in the Indian Ocean to serve the United States' neoimperial interests, Australia's exile and abandonment of refugees on remote islands, the failure to acknowledge genocidal acts or colonial dispossession, and the memorial work of the South African Constitution after apartheid are all sustained by historical fictions. This history-work of law constitutes an archive where sovereign violence is mediated, dissimulated, and sustained. Stewart Motha extends the concept of the "archive," as site of origin and source of authority, to signifying what law does in preserving and disavowing the past at the same time. Sovereignty is often cast as a limit-concept, constituent force, determining the boundary of law. Archiving Sovereignty reverses this to explain how judicial pronouncements inscribe and sustain extravagant claims to exceptionality and sovereign solitude. This wide-ranging, critical work distinguishes between myths that sustain neocolonial orders and fictions that generate new forms of political and ethical life.

Sociological jurisprudence. --- Sovereignty --- Chagossians --- Refugees --- Aboriginal Australians --- Transitional justice --- Post-apartheid era --- Social aspects. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social aspects --- British Indian Ocean Territory --- International status