GG091009: Diego Garcia

Life was very good. Everyone was enjoying life in harmony and peace, because we have our culture, we have our tradition. We all have a house. We all have a job. We used to work in a coconut plantation, where just after working our work, we used to go to the sea to fish. And there is an idea of share between each other. We all live as one family. And we have our culture, like our special meal, like our music… — Olivier Bancoult describing what was life like on Diego Garcia before the British forcibly removed all of the island’s inhabitants to make way for a US military installation. —