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Deportation/exile of the Chagos Islanders

 

Caption:  “A Postcard showing the current configuration runways – taken in the early 1990s.”

Source: http://www.zianet.com/ tedmorris/dg/pcrunway.jpg via http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/ dg/aerial2.html, copy, http://www.mydiegogarcia.com/ runway.jpg (both visited, August 9 2002, Janaury 24 2005).

The sources do not cite their sources and assert no copyright. This image is a “U.S. Government work” and, hence, not copyrightable, if a U.S. military source, as is likely, because none are permitted access to Diego Garcia, except U.S./U.K. officials, their civilian employees (mainly Filipinos) and contractors, an occasional expert tolerated for a specific task, and a tiny miscellany confined, by force, to a reception area. See, e.g., Massimo Calabresi, “Postcard: Diego Garcia” {pf} (TIME, Thursday, September 13 2007) (a journalist, accompanying G.W. Bush, U.S. President, at a refueling stop, en route to Sydney).

This document and image are not copyrighted and may be freely copied.

Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

Posted Sept. 1 2002. Updated June 7 2008.

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