The Chagos Archive is an online human rights documentation archive dedicated to documenting the history of the Chagossian people and their exile during the creation of the US military base on Diego Garcia. The website collects documents, photographs, videos, and other materials and shares them freely online for anyone in the world. We hope The Chagos Archive is especially helpful to Chagossians, lawyers, journalists, students, and teachers, among many others. We hope to create a Kreol version of the site soon.
The Chagos Archive is the result of a collaboration between Chagossians, Chagossian supporters, and the Chagos Refugees Public Anthropology Clinic at American University in Washington, DC. Special thanks to Olivier Bancoult, Sabrina Jean, Richard Dunne, Richard Gifford, Laura Jeffery, Rebecca Rotter, Ali Beydoun, Michael Tigar, Pawan Haulkory, Lucas Gatignol, and the UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Law Clinic.
The Chagos Archive is hosted with the help of the American University Library. Thanks to the American University College of Arts and Sciences for start-up funding. Archive planning: Stephanie-Anne Alipio, Erin Cagney, Julia Fischer-Mackey, Juliet Ihediohanma, Larissa Reed, Caroline Robertson, Kathryn Scavuzzo, and Hailey Rounsaville. Document organization: Michael Quiroz and Linda Golden. Site programming: Michael Quiroz. Project director: David Vine. Site creation: Caroline Robertson (MA in Public Anthropology, 2017, American University).
Chagos Refugees Public Anthropology Clinic
American University
Washington, DC 20016 USA
(1) 202.885.2923
chagosarchive@gmail.com — vine@american.edu
Contribute materials to The Chagos Archive by emailing original documents, photographs, videos, art, and anything else about Chagos, the military base on Diego Garcia, or Chagossian life in exile to vine@american.edu with the subject line “Chagos Archive.”