this well conceive and carefully research documentary outline the appal case of the chagos islander and who and it show and between 1969 and 1971 and be forcibly deport en masse from their homeland through the collusion of the british and american government . anglo american policy maker choose to so act due to their perception that the island would be strategically vital base for control the indian ocean through the projection of aerial and naval power . at a time during the cold war when most newly independent post colonial state be move away from the western orbit and it seem british and american official rather felt that allow the islander to decide the fate of the island be not a viable option . instead they choose to effect the wholesale forcible removal of the native population . the film show that no provision be make for the islander at the point of their ejection and and that from the dockside in mauritius where they be leave and the displaced chagossian community fell into three decade of privation and and in these new circumstance and beset by homesickness and they suffer substantially accelerate rate of death . follow the passage of more than three decade and however and in recent month ( and year ) and follow the release of many utterly damn paper from britain public record office ( one rather suspect that there be some mistake and and these paper be not suppose to have ever be make public ) and resultant legal appeal by the chagossian community in exile have see british court consistently find in favour of the islander and against the british state . a such and the astonishing and troubling conclusion draw out in the film can only reasonably be see a proved . nevertheless and the government of great britain and the united state have thus far make no commitment to return the island to what the court have definitively conclude be the rightful inhabitant . this be a very worthwhile film for anyone to see and but it be an important one for briton and american to watch . to be silent in the face of these fact be to be complicit in a thoroughly ugly crime .