{"id":907231,"date":"2022-12-05T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=267517"},"modified":"2022-12-05T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:03:01","slug":"the-cruel-dishonest-and-shameful-story-of-britains-last-colony-may-be-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/05\/the-cruel-dishonest-and-shameful-story-of-britains-last-colony-may-be-coming-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cruel, Dishonest and Shameful Story of Britain\u2019s Last Colony may be Coming to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours,\u201d wrote Denis Greenhill, the head of the Colonial Office in 1966 after Britain agreed to provide the US with a military base in the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The Americans were promised that the islands where the base, Diego Garcia, was to be built would be uninhabited. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/05\/the-cruel-dishonest-and-shameful-story-of-britains-last-colony-may-be-coming-to-an-end\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/05\/the-cruel-dishonest-and-shameful-story-of-britains-last-colony-may-be-coming-to-an-end\/\">The Cruel, Dishonest and Shameful Story of Britain\u2019s Last Colony may be Coming to an End<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/05\/the-cruel-dishonest-and-shameful-story-of-britains-last-colony-may-be-coming-to-an-end\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours,\u201d wrote Denis Greenhill, the head of the Colonial Office in 1966 after Britain agreed to provide the US with a military base in the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the Indian O&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907232,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907231\/revisions\/907232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}