Saturday 29 March 2014

MH370 flew me to Diego Garcia




This video surfaced just in time when my learning faculties were tuned in to indigenous peoples' rights. It is interesting what had happened on Diego Garcia, an island, an atoll, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In the 70's the US wanted the island for its military base. Its ally, the British obliged. And for that, the inhabitants were forced to leave the island and deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. What the US and the British has done to the inhabitants of DG only came to light after the documents are declassified.

Why a base in the middle of the ocean ? In the name of fighting terrorism. Then they develop Law on Terrorism. But it is funny they can't define terrorism up till now.

Compare this inhuman act re DG inhabitants to the supposedly paternalistic  attitude the British took towards our Orang Asli during the Emergency period. I say there has to be a reason for the two contrasting approaches.


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