By Jonathan Freeland, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, no. 9, May 2009

David Vine (2009): Islands of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia, Princeton University Press, Princeton (US)

"If the legal route fails, it will have to be politics that returns the people of Chagos to their home. They are surely too small in number to stir an international movement on their behalf. But one likes to think that if Barack Obama were somehow to stumble across a copy of David Vine's fine book, he would instantly realize that a great injustice has been done—one that could easily be put right."

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