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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Sands, Philippe, 1960-     Subjects     Population transfers -- Chagossians.     Deportation -- British Indian Ocean Territory.     Chagossians -- History.     Chagossians -- Biography.     Deportees -- British Indian Ocean Territory.     Deportees -- Mauritius.     Deportees -- Seychelles.     British Indian Ocean Territory -- History -- 20th century.     British Indian Ocean Territory -- Colonization.     Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sands, Philippe, 1960-       by title:      The last colony : a ...       by call number:      969.7 S221L     Search the Web     Sands, Philippe, 1960-     Population transfers -- Chagossians.     Deportation -- British Indian Ocean Territory.     Chagossians -- History.     Chagossians -- Biography.     Deportees -- British Indian Ocean Territory.     Deportees -- Mauritius.     Deportees -- Seychelles.     British Indian Ocean Territory -- History -- 20th century.     British Indian Ocean Territory -- Colonization.     Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The last colony : a tale of exile, justice, and courage / Philippe Sands. by Sands, Philippe, 1960- Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Call #: 969.7 S221L Subjects Population transfers -- Chagossians.   Deportation -- British Indian Ocean Territory.   Chagossians -- History.   Chagossians -- Biography.   Deportees -- British Indian Ocean Territory.   Deportees -- Mauritius.   Deportees -- Seychelles.   British Indian Ocean Territory -- History -- 20th century.   British Indian Ocean Territory -- Colonization.   Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780593535097 (hc) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  x, 203 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Prologue: 'La Cour!' -- Part one. 1945 : Newfoundland -- Deportation -- Peros Banhos -- Liseby, 1953 -- Part two. 1966 : Resolution 1514 -- South West Africa -- Separation -- Liseby, 1973 -- Part three. 1984 : Camp Justice -- The Sea -- Nicaragua -- Madame Elyse, 1984 -- September 11th -- Part four. 2003 : Madame Elyse, 2006 -- Men Fridays -- Istanbul -- New York -- Resolution 71/292 -- Part five. 2019 : The election -- The pleadings -- Madame Elyse, 2018 -- La Cour! -- The Ruling -- Return to New York -- Epilogue: Bleu de Nimes -- February 2022 -- Postscript: 2023 : Spring 2023. Summary:  "A moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath account of freedom and justice. Part history, part memoir, part courtroom drama, The Last Colony tells the true story of a tiny African nation in the middle of the Indian Ocean and of an extraordinary woman, descended from enslaved peope, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom -- and win a historic victory. In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse -- twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant -- was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies. Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the United States with land to construct a military base in the Indian Ocean. For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. Three decades into the battle, Philippe Sands became the lead lawyer in the case, designing its legal strategy and assembling a team of lawyers from Mauritius, Belgium, India, Ukraine, and the U.S. When the case finally reached the World Court in the Hague, Sands chose as the star witness the diminutive Liseby Elyse, now sixty-five years old, and instructed her to appear before the court, speaking in Kreol, to tell the fourteen international judges her story of forced exile. The fate of Chagos rested on her testimony. The judges faced a landmark decision: Would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would Liseby Elyse sway the judges and open the door, allowing her and her fellow Chagossians to return home -- or would they remain exiled forever? Philippe Sands writes of his own journey into international law and that of the World Court in the Hague, and of the extraordinary decades-long quest of Liseby Elyse, and the people of Chagos, in their fight for justice and a free and fair return to the idyllic land of their birth."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 969.7 S221L Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 969.7 S221L Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 27, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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