“East West Street author Philippe Sands takes us on a disturbing journey across international law sparked by the 1965 establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory and deportation of a Chagos island’s entire population.  But the British had reckoned without the determination of one young woman and a four-decade battle with the government of Mauritius.

International law specialist Philippe has been intimately involved in the cases for the last decade and now recounts the full shocking story in The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy. In conversation with Helena Kennedy.”