{"id":210111,"date":"2025-01-13T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/life-in-diego-garcia-camp-rats-would-crawl-over-our-children\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:05:26","slug":"life-in-diego-garcia-camp-rats-would-crawl-over-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/life-in-diego-garcia-camp-rats-would-crawl-over-our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Diego Garcia camp: rats would &#8216;crawl over our children&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Q7Ocr3qV8_0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Life in Diego Garcia camp: rats would 'crawl over our children'\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7Ocr3qV8_0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>For three years, one of the remotest places in the world, Diego Garcia, a UK\/US military base was home to dozens of stranded Tamil asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>They travelled half way around the world&#8217;s oceans for a better life, but ended up spending more that 1,000 days in detention on the Indian Ocean Island.<\/p>\n<p>This is their story about living through tropical storms, surviving in rat infested tents, forced to eat rotting food.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office have said: &quot;This Government inherited a deeply troubling situation that remained unresolved under the last administration for years after the migrants\u2019 arrival on Diego Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Garcia has never been a suitable long-term location for migrants. 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