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80 years ago, bombs were dropped on the city in a controversial attack planned by their own government, in an effort to determine what it would be like to obliterate a whole community. At the time of the attack, there was a civil war happening under the leadership of dictator, General Franco. The civilian attack on the city that was believed to have had strong roots in communism and resistance against the government, became the perfect guinea pig for the potential warfare between Nazi Germany and fascist Italy that existed at the time. The tale worsens, when it was discovered that not only 1,654 people reportedly died during the aerial bombings, but anyone who spoke up about what happened was punished by means such as having their heads shaved, and labelled as communists. Finally, in 1975, the death of General Franco meant that despite government still telling people not to dig up the past, the truth could now be uncovered. However, with the city having never truly recovered, what really happened in Guernica can never be forgotten. Pablo Picasso even painted a famous piece called 'The Guernica', in remembrance of all the lives lost on that day. It all started in the 60's when Harold Wilson struck a deal with the US government to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. However, the Americans demanded that the surrounded islands must first be "swept" and "sanitised" if they were going to lease the island. To achieve their twisted goal the British government restricted food supplies to the island, gassed animals, and any Chagossians who left Chagos for any medical reasons or to visit families found that when they tried to return home they were not allowed. By 1973 the deportation had concluded, but the struggle for many Islanders had just begun. After being dumped by British officials in Mauritius and the Seychelles many promises of support and compensation offered by the government failed to come through. Yet when they did, it was five years later! To make matters worse the select few that did receive money from the government first had to sign away any rights to their homeland. Rita Bancoult & Charlesia Alexis from John Pilger's film Stealing A Nation, remind us how the people of Chagos were tricked into signing away their right to return home. "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn't read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being." In 2016, the British Foreign office announced that the Chagossian refugees would still not be allowed to return to a home that was rightfully theirs to begin with! As the four-decade long fight wages on, we can only hope that justice for the Chagossians will prevail in the future. GUESTLIST 2017 / ISSUE 99 13 GUESTLIST YOU THOUGHT COLONIALISM WAS DEAD, THINK AGAIN! THE BOMBING OF GUERNICA AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED The area between Northern Spain, the Atlantic Ocean and the French border is home to the Basque country, and the region of Guernica within the country holds a dark history, that has only recently come to light. In another tale of fuckery that was obviously never taught to you in your British history lessons at school, let's take you right back to the 1960's when the UK set their sights on Chagos Island and the natives living there.