Right to Go Home - Chagos (Peros Banhos, Diego Garcia) | Olivier Bancoult | TEDxPlainesWilhems

Not known to many, beginning in 1968, the inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, were forcibly expelled from their birthplace to make way for a military base. Olivier Bancoult, leader of the Chagos Refugee Group, speaks about the fight and struggle of his people for the right to go home.
The irony of it is that in times where people from war torn countries are looking for a safe place for their families in other countries in Europe, USA etc, these Chagossians are fighting to go back home. Louis Olivier Bancoult is a Chagossian who is the leader of the Chagos Refugee Group. He was born in 1964 on the island of Peros Banhos in the Chagos Archipelago, and works by day as an electrician, but by night for the juridical fight for the right of the Chagossians to return from Mauritius to their original homeland. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx