Forced displacement caused a persistent grief that Chagossians believe killed people

Evidence

Aurélie Talate had no interest in moving anywhere except back to her home on Diego Garcia. Unfortunately, she will not see the day when Chagossians return to their homeland. She died in 2012 at the age of seventy, succumbing to what Chagossians call sagren—profound sorrow. … “I had something that had been affecting me for a long time, since we were uprooted,” Aurélie told me a few years before her death. “This sagren, this shock. It was this same problem that killed my child,” she said. “We weren’t living free like we did in our natal land. We had sagren when we couldn’t return.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 221

Categorization

• DEFINE: “Sagren,” a Chagossian Creole term, is here given a definition: profound sorrow following uprooting.
• ADDENDUM: Talate’s testimony that displacement grief (‘sagren’) killed her child parallels the emotional-corporeal tolls central to the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s framing of grief as physically consequential.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 221