Tip of the Iceberg - by Christopher Holden (UK)
Acrylic paint on canvas, 152 cm x 122 cm (2008)
Note : The two flags on the Iceberg are those of the United Kingdom (Britain) and the USA. Below them is written "Diego Garcia", the name of an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago, and home to people known as 'Chagossians'. Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars in 1814. In the 1960s, to accomplish the common UK-USA mutual ‘defence’ strategy (otherwise known as U.S. global domination) the UK was keen to help the United States. So, it gave the use of this unpopulated island (to avoid political difficulties) belonging to the UK and from which the United States would conduct its military activities in that region. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the UK through intimidation of locals and by denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. The United States built a large air, naval and military base which has been in continuous operation ever since. Today, at any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the U.S. had been using Diego Garcia for 'extraordinary renditions', the transporting, detention and torture of individuals captured in the US's "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the US’s "high-value detainees" was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia. Since the 1970s there have been various petitions and lawsuits from the Chagossian people pleading to be allowed to return. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland
Note : The two flags on the Iceberg are those of the United Kingdom (Britain) and the USA. Below them is written "Diego Garcia", the name of an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago, and home to people known as 'Chagossians'. Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars in 1814. In the 1960s, to accomplish the common UK-USA mutual ‘defence’ strategy (otherwise known as U.S. global domination) the UK was keen to help the United States. So, it gave the use of this unpopulated island (to avoid political difficulties) belonging to the UK and from which the United States would conduct its military activities in that region. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the UK through intimidation of locals and by denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. The United States built a large air, naval and military base which has been in continuous operation ever since. Today, at any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the U.S. had been using Diego Garcia for 'extraordinary renditions', the transporting, detention and torture of individuals captured in the US's "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the US’s "high-value detainees" was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia. Since the 1970s there have been various petitions and lawsuits from the Chagossian people pleading to be allowed to return. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland
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Tip of the Iceberg - by Christopher Holden (UK)
Acrylic paint on canvas, 152 cm x 122 cm (2008)
Note : The two flags on the Iceberg are those of the United Kingdom (Britain) and the USA. Below them is written "Diego Garcia", the name of an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago, and home to people known as 'Chagossians'. Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars in 1814. In the 1960s, to accomplish the common UK-USA mutual ‘defence’ strategy (otherwise known as U.S. global domination) the UK was keen to help the United States. So, it gave the use of this unpopulated island (to avoid political difficulties) belonging to the UK and from which the United States would conduct its military activities in that region. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the UK through intimidation of locals and by denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. The United States built a large air, naval and military base which has been in continuous operation ever since. Today, at any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the U.S. had been using Diego Garcia for 'extraordinary renditions', the transporting, detention and torture of individuals captured in the US's "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the US’s "high-value detainees" was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia. Since the 1970s there have been various petitions and lawsuits from the Chagossian people pleading to be allowed to return. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland
Note : The two flags on the Iceberg are those of the United Kingdom (Britain) and the USA. Below them is written "Diego Garcia", the name of an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago, and home to people known as 'Chagossians'. Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars in 1814. In the 1960s, to accomplish the common UK-USA mutual ‘defence’ strategy (otherwise known as U.S. global domination) the UK was keen to help the United States. So, it gave the use of this unpopulated island (to avoid political difficulties) belonging to the UK and from which the United States would conduct its military activities in that region. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the UK through intimidation of locals and by denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. The United States built a large air, naval and military base which has been in continuous operation ever since. Today, at any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the U.S. had been using Diego Garcia for 'extraordinary renditions', the transporting, detention and torture of individuals captured in the US's "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the US’s "high-value detainees" was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia. Since the 1970s there have been various petitions and lawsuits from the Chagossian people pleading to be allowed to return. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland
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Tip of the Iceberg - by Christopher Holden (UK)
Acrylic paint on canvas, 152 cm x 122 cm (2008)
Note : The two flags on the Iceberg are those of the United Kingdom (Britain) and the USA. Below them is written "Diego Garcia", the name of an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago, and home to people known as 'Chagossians'. Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars in 1814. In the 1960s, to accomplish the common UK-USA mutual ‘defence’ strategy (otherwise known as U.S. global domination) the UK was keen to help the United States. So, it gave the use of this unpopulated island (to avoid political difficulties) belonging to the UK and from which the United States would conduct its military activities in that region. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the UK through intimidation of locals and by denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. The United States built a large air, naval and military base which has been in continuous operation ever since. Today, at any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the U.S. had been using Diego Garcia for 'extraordinary renditions', the transporting, detention and torture of individuals captured in the US's "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the US’s "high-value detainees" was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia. Since the 1970s there have been various petitions and lawsuits from the Chagossian people pleading to be allowed to return. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland
Note : The two flags on the Iceberg are those of the United Kingdom (Britain) and the USA. Below them is written "Diego Garcia", the name of an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago, and home to people known as 'Chagossians'. Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars in 1814. In the 1960s, to accomplish the common UK-USA mutual ‘defence’ strategy (otherwise known as U.S. global domination) the UK was keen to help the United States. So, it gave the use of this unpopulated island (to avoid political difficulties) belonging to the UK and from which the United States would conduct its military activities in that region. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the UK through intimidation of locals and by denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles. The United States built a large air, naval and military base which has been in continuous operation ever since. Today, at any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the U.S. had been using Diego Garcia for 'extraordinary renditions', the transporting, detention and torture of individuals captured in the US's "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the US’s "high-value detainees" was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia. Since the 1970s there have been various petitions and lawsuits from the Chagossian people pleading to be allowed to return. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland
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