blessed britain
1961. Sir Bruce Greatbatch, Governor of the Seychelles, gave the order that all the dogs on Diego Garcia were to be killed. These were much loved pets and the horror of their killing was taken as a warning by the Islanders. Almost 1000 pets were rounded up and gassed, using the exhaust fumes from American military vehicles. ‘They were absolutely destroyed by the fate reserved for their dogs and many of them told me, in no uncertain words - they were told that any objection to the depopulation – they would suffer the same fate’. lawyer for Chagos Islanders)
Lawyer for Chagos Islanders, quoted in John Pilger's Stealing a Nation
mad world
It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the county of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. It would surely be quicker and more humane to refine the Swazi people and put them in our tanks.
