Robert Lemaitre, 82, a retired docker and fisherman from the Salomon Islands, one of sixty-five islands of the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, pictured here with his grandson in Roiche Bois, suburb of Port Louis, Mauritius, 2005. Robert was one of 2,000 people secretly forcibly removed from the Chagos Archipelago between 1965 and 1973 by the British government to make way for the construction of one of the largest U.S. air and naval bases in the world on Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia was where the B52 and stealth bombers took off to attack Afghanistan and Iraq.  For the full story and photographs, please click on Chagossians.  This work celebrates Black History Month October 2009.