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100 1  Sands, Philippe,|d1960-|eauthor. 
245 14 The last colony :|ba tale of exile, justice, and courage /
       |cPhilippe Sands. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2023. 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    x, 203 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
336    cartographic image|bcri|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: 'La Cour!' -- Part one. 1945 : Newfoundland -- 
       Deportation -- Peros Banhos -- Liseby, 1953 -- Part two. 
       1966 : Resolution 1514 -- South West Africa -- Separation 
       -- Liseby, 1973 -- Part three. 1984 : Camp Justice -- The 
       Sea -- Nicaragua -- Madame Elyse, 1984 -- September 11th -
       - Part four. 2003 : Madame Elyse, 2006 -- Men Fridays -- 
       Istanbul -- New York -- Resolution 71/292 -- Part five. 
       2019 : The election -- The pleadings -- Madame Elyse, 2018
       -- La Cour! -- The Ruling -- Return to New York -- 
       Epilogue: Bleu de Nimes -- February 2022 -- Postscript: 
       2023 : Spring 2023. 
520    "An account of the making of modern international law and 
       one woman's fight for justice"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, 
       Liseby Elyse-- twenty years old, newly married and four 
       months pregnant-- was rounded up, along with the entire 
       population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings 
       and leave her homeland by ship or slowly starve. Some two 
       thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for
       generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved 
       people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the
       18th century by the French and British, were deported 
       overnight from their island paradise as the result of a 
       secret decision by the British government to provide the 
       United States with land to construct a military base in 
       the Indian Ocean. When the case reaches the World Court in
       the Hague, the star witness was Liseby Elyse, now sixty-
       five years old, speaking in Kreol to tell the fourteen 
       international judges her story of forced exile. Sands 
       writes of Elyse's decades-long quest-- and his own journey
       -- to fight for justice and a free and fair return to the 
       land of their birth. -- adapted from jacket 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Population transfers|xChagossians. 
650  0 Deportation|zBritish Indian Ocean Territory. 
650  0 Chagossians|xHistory. 
650  0 Chagossians|vBiography. 
650  0 Deportees|zBritish Indian Ocean Territory. 
650  0 Deportees|zMauritius. 
650  0 Deportees|zSeychelles. 
650  7 British colonies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01910374 
650  7 Chagossians.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01745892 
650  7 Colonization.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00868483 
650  7 Deportation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00890840 
650  7 Deportees.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01750055 
650  7 Population transfers|xChagossians.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01752059 
650  7 HISTORY / Asia / General.|2bisacsh 
651  0 British Indian Ocean Territory|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  0 British Indian Ocean Territory|xColonization. 
651  0 Great Britain|xColonies|zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  7 Africa.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01239509 
651  7 British Indian Ocean Territory.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01206732 
651  7 Mauritius.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205325 
651  7 Seychelles.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205626 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
710 2  Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,|epublisher. 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aSands, Philippe.|tLast colony :<b
       |bFirst American edition.|dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 
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