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University of Essex homepage Events HRC Film Screening 22 Feb
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Human Rights Centre Film Screening - Stealing a Nation (2004).

Don't miss this opportunity to attend a thought-provoking film screening of the documentary 'Stealing a Nation - The Plight of the Chagos Islands VS the United States (2004)'.

  • Thu 22 Feb 24

    17:00 - 20:00

  • Colchester Campus

    CINE10

  • Event speaker

    Various

  • Event type

    Lectures, talks and seminars

  • Event organiser

    Human Rights Centre

  • Contact details

    Law and HRC Events and Communications Team

You are warmly invited to attend this film screening hosted by the Essex Human Rights Centre.

Introduced by Professor Colin Samson, Department of Sociology.

Stealing a Nation is a 2004 Granada Television documentary about the British–American clandestine operation that saw the expulsion of the native Chagossian population of Diego Garcia and neighbouring islands. More than 2,000 people were exiled to Mauritius between 1967 and 1973, so that Diego Garcia could become a United States airbase (see depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago). The film contains a series of interviews with native Chagossians, who have been deprived of their right of return and forced to live in abject poverty. Stealing a Nation was written and directed by John Pilger, and produced and directed by Christopher Martin; reconstruction footage was directed by Sean Crotty.

How to book

Please book a ticket through Eventbrite. Any problems with booking please email lawhrcevents@essex.ac.uk.

About the Human Rights Centre


The Essex Human Rights Centre is composed of over 2000 alumni, current students, over 100 members from across 11 disciplines, fellows, and partners.

The Human Rights Centre acts as a hub for this community, facilitating interaction at the University, online, and through networks we have established across the world.

Our community is unique in its diversity, sense of unity, and shared resolve for the advancement of human rights globally. For the thousands of students and staff that have passed through the Human Rights Centre’s doors, the Centre has been more than an institute built to generate research and develop and exchange ideas. It has also been a meeting place to form lasting friendships and bonds.

Together, Essex students, staff, graduates and partners, from every corner of the world, have worked on human rights projects that have had, and continue to have, a tangible practical impact on the ground. This is a central part of the legacy of the many individuals who have contributed to the establishment and growth of the Centre.
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