[Media-watch] Diego Garcia

[antony_wright at blueyonder.co.uk]

. . . . .  What is the situation four years on from the high court ruling? Essentially the same: another flurry of articles followed by the familiar reversion to silence. Given the absence of media attention coupled with the total intransigence of the British and American governments over the issue it is questionable whether writing about Diego Garcia is likely to have any beneficial effect for the islanders themselves. The silence and lack of action on this issue has prevailed for so long now that it seems that raising the issue is more useful in disabusing the general population of notions of our "ethical foreign policy" rather than in advancing the cause of the Ilois.
 
FULL ARTICLE : http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/69452450?-573
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