Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (53 page)

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Authors: David Vine

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dying of,
156
–60,
160
importance of in explaining illness,
6
,
155
resemblance of to
nervos
,
156
as synecdoche,
152
–54
Salomon Islands,
21
,
24
,
38
,
93
,
119
,
120
São Tomé and Príncipe,
188
–89
Saudi Arabia,
89
,
194
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy,
156
,
181
,
240
–41n15
Schlesinger, James,
121
,
171
Scott, Robert,
3
,
30
,
37
,
38
,
213
n19
description/opinion of the Chagossians,
39
–40
Scudder, Thayer,
144
,
156
,
157
Seabees,
110
,
111
completion of aircraft runway on Diego Garcia,
120
–21
construction of military base on Diego Garcia,
112
segas,
36
–37,
196
Seiberling, John,
222
n49
Selmour, Josiane,
145
Seychelles,
1
,
27
,
35
,
39
,
77
,
78
,
82
,
83
,
108
,
120
,
146
,
242
n17,
246
–47n31
building of airport in,
116
conditions of transplanted Chagossians in,
128
–30,
239
n11
copra industry in,
134
economic transformation of,
133
–34
economy in,
151
–52
number of islands in,
5
racism and discrimination in,
138
as a “rundown plantation,”
134
Sheridan, Bernard,
166
Sick, Gary,
181
Six Islands,
24
,
27
,
38
,
213
n16
slaves/slavery,
2
,
3
,
21
,
24
,
212
n7,
213
n19
abolition of slavery in Mauritius (1835),
24
,
27
and the plantation system,
24
–27
Sloan, Frank,
77
Smith, Neil,
43
,
55
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
(Fadiman),
156
–57
Sokolowski, Wojciech,
12
Souillac, Vicompte de,
23
“South Atlantic and Indian Ocean Monroe Doctrine and Force” (Barber),
41
,
216
n2
South Korea,
89
Soviet Union,
57
,
58
,
60
,
61
,
121
,
187
,
220
–21n20
Spanish-American War (1898),
42
Stevens, Ted,
60
Stevenson, John R.,
107
–8
Stewart, Michael,
82
Stiefel, Tea,
157
Stimson, Henry L.,
48
Stoddart, David,
98
,
230
n36
Stoddart, Jonathan (“Jock”),
117
–18
Strategic Island Concept,
4
–5,
41
–42,
49
,
60
,
68
,
69
,
184
,
185
as protection for “future freedom of military action,”
184
threats to,
90
as a traditional tool of empire,
185
–86
Suez Canal crisis,
59
Suriname,
50
Talate, Aurélie Lisette,
164
–66,
167
,
168
,
175
Tawara,
53
Taylor, Charles,
163
Thorneycroft, Peter,
70
Three Brothers,
21
,
24
,
38
Thule (Greenland),
67
,
246
–47n31
Tigar, Michael,
10
–11,
12
,
13
,
171
,
207
n23
Todd, John,
93
,
108
,
120
Toussaint, Auguste,
39
Treaty of Paris (1814),
23
Trinidad and Tobago,
59
,
239
n7
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI),
53
Ujelang Atoll,
64
United Kingdom,
11
,
12
,
75
,
194
agreement (“Exchange of Notes”) of with the United States concerning Diego Garcia (1966),
14
–15,
179
–80
British Navy/Admiralty,
29
,
68
–69
declining colonial presence of,
59
,
60
exchange of military bases for U.S. destroyers (“destroyers for bases”/“lend-lease”),
49
–50
lease of Chagos back to Chagos-Agalega Limited,
92
objections to the cost of Chagossian resettlement on Diego Garcia,
177
–78
policy of toward the Chagossians,
94
–95
presence of in the Indian Ocean,
56
purchase of Chagos from Chagos-Agalega Limited,
92
pursuit of a base on Aldabra Island,
98
rationale of for supporting the Strategic Island Concept,
70
–71
responsibility of for Chagossian deportees,
118
role of in deportation of Chagossians from Diego Garcia,
78
–79,
107
–10,
111
,
122
–23,
207
n24
secret talks with the United States on island bases in the Indian Ocean,
76
–78
“special relationship” of with the United States,
89
–90
and the Suez Canal crisis,
59
support of for the Strategic Island Concept,
68
–69.
See also
British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT); Orders in Council
United Nations (UN): Article 73 of the UN charter,
91
Declaration 1514 (XV) on “Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,”
82
rules of on decolonization,
90
–91
United States: agreement (“Exchange of Notes”) of with the United Kingdom concerning Diego Garcia (1966),
14
–15,
179
annexation of Hawai‘i,
48
arms race with the Soviet Union,
121
colonial possessions of,
53
–54
conquering of Native Americans,
47
denial of the U.S. government that an indigenous population existed on Chagos,
230
–31n14
expansion of,
47
–48
forts of (U.S. Army) west of the Mississippi,
47
immunity of from unlawful government acts,
190
–91
militarization of,
58
–59
military dominance of relative to the Soviet Union,
60
–61,
220
n19
military interventions in foreign countries,
49

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