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Name and Description	Nation	Location
..::ATOPIA :: polylogic e-zine ::..	Ilois	Chagos Archipelago
In the issue `Signatures of the vanishing` ATOPIA (http://www.atopia.tk), the polylogic e-zine for literature, philosophie, arts and politics, focuses on vanishing identities. One article is dedicated to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, where the inhabitants (the Ilois) were driven out of their land because of military interests.
Diego Garcia	Ilois	Chagos Archipelago
by Alex Doherty Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos archipelago at the heart of the Indian Ocean, was severed from the mainland in 1965 to create the British Indian Ocean Territory. The British then leased the island to the United States to establish a military outpost. To state that the Ilois inhabitants were “relocated” is certainly factually correct. It does not, to say the least, tell the whole story, which can be called ‘ethnic cleansing by stealth.”
Diego Garcia: The ‘criminal question’ doctrine	Ilois	Chagos Archipelago
by Charles Judson Harwood Jr. Beginning in 1971, the U.S. constructed an Air Force base on Diego Garcia, a coral atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In preparation for this, from 1967 to 1973, British officials and military officers – for a secret fee of $14 million, paid by the U.S. military – forcibly evicted, arrested, detained, deported, and excluded permanently from their homeland the entire indigenous Ilois population, an ethnic-cleansing which (as they secretly admitted at the time) violated the United Nations Charter and other U.S. and international law and, as a British Court ruled 30 years later, British domestic law as well.