The Chagossians - the rightful inhabitants of the islands - have sustained a very different sort of torture. They were not beaten or raped, they were not waterboarded or forcibly deprived of sleep, but they were threatened, they were ripped from their homelands (ancestors, communities, schools, homes), they were forced onto the hull of a ship, and they were dropped on foreign islands and forgotten. And this didn't happen in long ago history, it happened only 40 years ago - a slow and pronounced torture that continues today.
illustration: http://inforeunion.overblog.com/2014/05/torture-et-prison-secrete-a-diego-garcia.html
Torture of Neglect and Marginalization Renders a People Invisible
