Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (52 page)

Moulinie, Paul,
92
,
108
,
228
n12

Moulinie and Company,
113
,
119
,
120
,
138
,
228
n14

request of to BIOT for return of Chagossian workers from Mauritius,
92
–93,
229
n16

Mozambique,
21

Munasinghe, Viranjini,
239
n7

Murray, Robert,
84
–85,
94
–95

Naipaul, V. S.,
129
–30

Napoleonic Wars,
23

National Security Council Report 68 (1950 [NSC-68]),
57
–58,
99

nationalism,
89

Native Americans,
47
,
162
,
163

Nauvel, Christian,
174

Nayak, Ranjit,
135
,
157
,
158

nervos
,
156
,
162

Newsom, Eric,
171

Nicaragua,
49

Nitze, Paul,
14
,
57
,
58
,
69
,
83
,
97
,
105
–6,
182

authorship of National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68),
99

as Deputy Secretary of Defense,
99
,
100

justifications of for a military base on Diego Garcia,
84
–85,
96

Nixon, Richard Milhous,
103

Noble Energy,
189

Nordvær
,
109
,
113
,
114
–15,
119
–20,
160

Normand, Pierre Marie Le,
23
,
24

North American Treaty Organization (NATO),
46
,
57

Norwa (Diego Garcia),
110

Noyes, James,
95

Nubians (Egyptian and Sudanese),
156

oil/petroleum,
56
–57,
188
–89

as essential to the security of the United States,
60
,
121

Okinawa/Okinawans,
89
,
183
,
184
,
222
n44,
246
–47n31

displacement of Okinawans to Bolivia,
16
,
66
–67,
222
n44

Op-93 (U.S. Navy Long-Range Objectives Group),
41
,
61
.
See also
Barber, Stuart

Orders in Council: challenge to the legality of,
175

use of to bar any Chagossians from returning to Diego Garcia,
174
–75

use of to form the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT),
83
–84

Ottaway, David,
112
,
122

Pakistan,
107

Palmyia Island,
50

Panama,
49
,
65
,
246
–47n31

Parsons, William S.,
63

Pauline, Olivette,
2

Peck, E. H.,
82

Peros Banhos,
2
,
20
–21,
24
,
37
,
93
,
119
,
120

Corner Island (L’île du Coin),
2
,
37

French claims on (1744),
21

Perry, Matthew Calbraith,
218
n27

Persian Gulf,
10
,
41
,
184
,
189
–90

Philippines,
42
,
48
,
51
,
52
,
55
,
246
–47n31

and the indigenous Aetas people,
66

Pike, John,
10
,
15
,
187

Pilger, John,
83
–84,
171

Piven, Frances Fox,
182

plantations/plantation system,
24
–27,
215
n54

benefits of to workers,
35

in the Caribbean,
25
–26,
213
n23

continuation of after emancipation,
27
–28

in different parts of the world,
25

importation of indentured labor from India,
27
,
214
n28

management system of,
26

and the
petite plantation
for slave use,
25

post-emancipation wages and housing for workers,
28
–30

Pointe aux Sables (Port Louis, Mauritius),
150

Pointe Marianne (Diego Garcia),
110

Polaris missile system, research and development costs of,
87
–88

Pona, Joseph,
23

Pona, Pauline,
23

Port Louis,
126
–27,
128
,
130

Powell, Colin,
43

Precht, Henry,
116
,
118

Project Phoenix,
73

Puerto Rico,
42
–43,
48
,
51
,
53
,
246
–47n31.
See also
Culebra Island (Puerto Rico); Vieques Island

race/racism,
138
,
244
n1

expulsion of Chagossians from Diego Garcia as an act of racism,
181
–83

invalidity of biological definitions of race,
68
n,
183
n,
239
n12

Ramgoolam, Seewoosagur,
83
,
119
,
167

RAND Corporation,
96

Rapid Deployment Force (RDF),
185
.
See also
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

Ravenal, Earl,
97
–98,
101
,
105

Raz, Guy,
17

Reagan, Ronald,
8
,
185

rendition, extraordinary,
9

“Report on the Resettlement of Inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago,”
122

Réunion Island (Île Bourbon),
21

Rice, Condoleezza,
9

Ricketts, Claude,
76

Rivero, Horacio,
63
,
64
,
81
,
182
,
206
n7,
221
n22,
244
n1

Roche Bois (Port Louis, Mauritius),
160

Rodrigues (dependency of Mauritius),
139

Rogers, William P.,
104

Rongelap Atoll,
64

Rongerik Atoll,
63
–64

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
49
–50

“root shock” of displacement,
155
–56,
161
–63

effect of on whole populations,
162
.
See also
Fullilove, Mindy

Rostow, Walter,
69
,
73

Rumsfeld, Donald Henry,
12

Rusk, Dean,
72
,
75
,
80
,
81
,
101
,
226
n40

Sadness, dying of,
156
–60.
See also latristes
(feelings of profound sadness);
nervos

sagren
(profound sorrow),
132
,
148
,
149
,
160
–61,
162
–63,
195