Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (53 page)

dying of,
156
–60,
160

importance of in explaining illness,
6
,
155

resemblance of to
nervos
,
156

as synecdoche,
152
–54

Salomon Islands,
21
,
24
,
38
,
93
,
119
,
120

São Tomé and Príncipe,
188
–89

Saudi Arabia,
89
,
194

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy,
156
,
181
,
240
–41n15

Schlesinger, James,
121
,
171

Scott, Robert,
3
,
30
,
37
,
38
,
213
n19

description/opinion of the Chagossians,
39
–40

Scudder, Thayer,
144
,
156
,
157

Seabees,
110
,
111

completion of aircraft runway on Diego Garcia,
120
–21

construction of military base on Diego Garcia,
112

segas,
36
–37,
196

Seiberling, John,
222
n49

Selmour, Josiane,
145

Seychelles,
1
,
27
,
35
,
39
,
77
,
78
,
82
,
83
,
108
,
120
,
146
,
242
n17,
246
–47n31

building of airport in,
116

conditions of transplanted Chagossians in,
128
–30,
239
n11

copra industry in,
134

economic transformation of,
133
–34

economy in,
151
–52

number of islands in,
5

racism and discrimination in,
138

as a “rundown plantation,”
134

Sheridan, Bernard,
166

Sick, Gary,
181

Six Islands,
24
,
27
,
38
,
213
n16

slaves/slavery,
2
,
3
,
21
,
24
,
212
n7,
213
n19

abolition of slavery in Mauritius (1835),
24
,
27

and the plantation system,
24
–27

Sloan, Frank,
77

Smith, Neil,
43
,
55

Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
(Fadiman),
156
–57

Sokolowski, Wojciech,
12

Souillac, Vicompte de,
23

“South Atlantic and Indian Ocean Monroe Doctrine and Force” (Barber),
41
,
216
n2

South Korea,
89

Soviet Union,
57
,
58
,
60
,
61
,
121
,
187
,
220
–21n20

Spanish-American War (1898),
42

Stevens, Ted,
60

Stevenson, John R.,
107
–8

Stewart, Michael,
82

Stiefel, Tea,
157

Stimson, Henry L.,
48

Stoddart, David,
98
,
230
n36

Stoddart, Jonathan (“Jock”),
117
–18

Strategic Island Concept,
4
–5,
41
–42,
49
,
60
,
68
,
69
,
184
,
185

as protection for “future freedom of military action,”
184

threats to,
90

as a traditional tool of empire,
185
–86

Suez Canal crisis,
59

Suriname,
50

Talate, Aurélie Lisette,
164
–66,
167
,
168
,
175

Tawara,
53

Taylor, Charles,
163

Thorneycroft, Peter,
70

Three Brothers,
21
,
24
,
38

Thule (Greenland),
67
,
246
–47n31

Tigar, Michael,
10
–11,
12
,
13
,
171
,
207
n23

Todd, John,
93
,
108
,
120

Toussaint, Auguste,
39

Treaty of Paris (1814),
23

Trinidad and Tobago,
59
,
239
n7

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI),
53

Ujelang Atoll,
64

United Kingdom,
11
,
12
,
75
,
194

agreement (“Exchange of Notes”) of with the United States concerning Diego Garcia (1966),
14
–15,
179
–80

British Navy/Admiralty,
29
,
68
–69

declining colonial presence of,
59
,
60

exchange of military bases for U.S. destroyers (“destroyers for bases”/“lend-lease”),
49
–50

lease of Chagos back to Chagos-Agalega Limited,
92

objections to the cost of Chagossian resettlement on Diego Garcia,
177
–78

policy of toward the Chagossians,
94
–95

presence of in the Indian Ocean,
56

purchase of Chagos from Chagos-Agalega Limited,
92

pursuit of a base on Aldabra Island,
98

rationale of for supporting the Strategic Island Concept,
70
–71

responsibility of for Chagossian deportees,
118

role of in deportation of Chagossians from Diego Garcia,
78
–79,
107
–10,
111
,
122
–23,
207
n24

secret talks with the United States on island bases in the Indian Ocean,
76
–78

“special relationship” of with the United States,
89
–90

and the Suez Canal crisis,
59

support of for the Strategic Island Concept,
68
–69.
See also
British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT); Orders in Council

United Nations (UN): Article 73 of the UN charter,
91

Declaration 1514 (XV) on “Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,”
82

rules of on decolonization,
90
–91

United States: agreement (“Exchange of Notes”) of with the United Kingdom concerning Diego Garcia (1966),
14
–15,
179

annexation of Hawai‘i,
48

arms race with the Soviet Union,
121

colonial possessions of,
53
–54

conquering of Native Americans,
47

denial of the U.S. government that an indigenous population existed on Chagos,
230
–31n14

expansion of,
47
–48

forts of (U.S. Army) west of the Mississippi,
47

immunity of from unlawful government acts,
190
–91

militarization of,
58
–59

military dominance of relative to the Soviet Union,
60
–61,
220
n19

military interventions in foreign countries,
49