Saturday, December 17, 2022

Chagos Islands

On December 7, Philippe Sands, lawyer, author and professor of international law, delivered the Fourth Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture at the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool. The lecture told the story of Sands' latest book, The Last Colony. The book describes Britain's colonial legacy in the Chagos Islands and Sands' efforts, in a series of jurisdictions, to make it possible for Chagossians to return to the islands where they had been forcibly removed. 1h40 min., no transcript but really excellent subtitles you can activate.