In Kinship/Home, composed by Dorothy Cross, Philippe Sands writes of a visit to the Chagos archipelago in 2021. It has been 3 yrs since the international court of justice in The Hague ruled it was part of the terrotory of Mauritius, and that Britain must end its illegal occupation. He travels with Liseby, to visit her birthplace, Île du Coin, a visit made possible by the case brought by Mauritius against the Maldives in Hamburg, at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. They film the return of the Chagossians, on an amphibious landing craft, pulling up on an old jetty. The roots of an old banyan tree have spread over the stone steps, surrounded by five decades of debris. Nature crushes the remnants of colonial civilisation.
#PhilippeSands writes of the #Chagos archipelago.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled it part of Mauritius. Britain must end its occupation.
He travels with Liseby who visits her birthplace Île du Coin, dances on sand, sings, tends family graves, watched afar by a strange ship.
