Amy Goodman talks to Jan Tamas, from the Czech Republic, founder of the No Bases Initiative, a coalition against the proposed US missile system in Eastern Europe, and Olivier Bancoult of the Chagos Refugee Group, expelled at the age of four from his native Diego Garcia, the site of a US military base since British forces expelled native islanders in the early 1970s.

Two British human rights campaigners have been arrested after entering waters around the island of Diego Garcia, protesting the enforced exile of its population and the island’s use in the “rendition” of prisoners.

Diego Garcia is the oceanic tombstone of British independence. The UK’s violation of international law there is yet another of its epitaphs, says Ian Williams

Andy Rowell on the Chagos islanders’ protest outside Downing Street earlier this month.

Andy Rowell describes the series of deceptions and injustices which have been visited upon the people of the Chagos Islands by successive British governments – and which continue to this day.

One of the more sordid and long-running stories in Anglo-American colonial history reared its ugly head again on Friday when the UK’s all-party foreign affairs committee announced plans to investigate long-standing allegations that the CIA has, since 2002, held and interrogated al-Qaeda suspects at a secret prison on the island of Diego Garcia.

If its record over the plight of the Chagos islanders is anything to go by, writes Neville de Silva, the west seems to have been given a moral licence from up above to do as it pleases, when it pleases.