The Island of Secrets | Al Jazeera Investigations

A remote Mauritian island is being quietly transformed into a military hub for India's navy. That’s what we found using satellite pictures, shipping data, financial documents, and images from a barely accessible island about 1100 km north of Mauritius. The Island of Secrets also shows how the construction project on Agaléga has the potential to uproot the lives of its 300 residents in order to make way for a military facility. Residents worry that what happened on the Mauritian island of Diego Garcia in the 1960s will happen to them. The Mauritian government responded to this film by restating its position that there is “no agreement” with India to set up a military a base in Agaléga. It said that construction work on the island is designed to improve “inadequate infrastructure facilities”. The government also stated that it has no intention of displacing people living on the island. India’s Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to our request for comment.
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[julwiezdeghorz]

Very good. Al Jazeera should also try investigating deep into the Wuhan lab, and not just handpicking for sake of its own interest.

[davideloi]

My opinion: the Indian government is trying to anticipate possible Chinese moves. If the Indian government had not done this, the Chinese would have.

[Oceansta]

12:19 this so-called expert doesn't even know that the aircraft is called P8-I where the I stands for India.

It's not "P81" 🤦🏽‍♂️

[johnrohr]

Good news India standing up for herself usa and australia just ask if you need anything
We will be more than willing to help

[aigottalent]

When I got back home, I met a lot of workers from Qatar who told me some funny stuffs about mistreatment. Maybe I misheard. Maybe Al Jazeera should investigate those claims with the same amount of journalistic integrity as this one. I am sure it would be most interesting.

[seanvaradhan]

Can you come up with a similar investigative video in various islands in South China?

[ArindamSengupta]

Can you please also 'secretly' investigate on the terrorist camps conducted by Pak military?

[jlo]

As long as it isn't China I'm good....forreal China is doing this yo small countries around the world.lending them money and when they can't pay it they take prime real estate to develop military bases simple as that

[kanamasai]

Well done Al Jazeera.
How about an investigative documentary on Diego Garcia.

[Tamilanban.T]

Prime minister of Mauritius is basically an Indian. What is the secrecy, he allowed a base for his ancestral home country?
His loyalty is always with his roots.

[MSC]

Can Al-Jazeera go and do some research work for Uigurs in China or the minorities in Pakistan or for instance the plight of migrant labours in Qatar itself

[davisjugroop]

The way this video is structured makes its look that these are secrets. There are official reports online avaialble to the general public on that.

[SunilKBarik]

Why not an episode investigating boko haram or forced labour in Qatar ?

[kumargarv]

Now I realised why Israel bombed and demolished Aj Jazeera offices in Palestine. Al Jazeera, Plz make a documentary on how Persia was turned into Iran.

[shrikantpujar]

Once upon a time, I was a huge fan of Al Jazeera. These days when I saw their anti-Modi videos it was evident that these people are biased and paid to do the job. Not a great Modi fan but it's clear that you guys wanna demonize him. Using satellite imagery and finding out the company name from the social media pics posted by the workers etc, you haven't proved yourself to be a detective. That's not smart. Like someone said, go to Sentinel island and make a documentary.
Btw, glad to see India coming up with tactical strategies!
Unsubscribed this channel from my tv!

[Val_kyriee]

Brilliant reporting. Such depth and information synopsis. One looks forward to the same levels of journalism regarding the way foreign labourers are treated, paid and housed in Qatar. Will be looking forward to that video.

[keshavjha]

Today's Al-Jazeera made us proud.we are gonna go and open a new Re-education camp for uighurs and Qataris there.

[atulbhardwaj]

Al jazeera is too late, study channel in india have already made videos on this topic before them

[ankitgupta]

They should be renamed to JalZeera for putting in so much masala in a topic that is well known.

[Ovin]

Thanks, Al Jalzeera for letting people know about the achievement of the Indian Govt at overseas. You have shown us a detailed report. We are proud of our govt's decision. Hence, will keep supporting our govt. Kindly have a look into the labourers life in Qatar as well as they may get paid well and get good facilities like other humans.