Forced displacement caused long-term psychological harm, even death, among Chagossians.

Evidence

“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…, 222

Categorization

• XREF: The psychosomatic harm of displacement echoes the sacrifice framing used in earlier chapters of this book.