For the islanders of Diego Garcia, the actions of the British government in removing them from their island homes in the 1960s are a painful memory, daily re-awakened in their struggle for a better life and justice. To many who hear their story, the deportation of the Chagossians to make way for a US military base, ironically known to Americans as 'Camp Justice', was a dreadful abuse of power and violation of rights. Justice now seems a long way off for the islanders whose claims of a right to return to their Indian Ocean homes. But as the islanders and their counsel prepare to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights, rights lawyers and human rights advocates are looking again at the circumstances of their removal, and have begun to discuss whether it should be labelled as a 'crime against humanity'.