Camp Justice (Diego Garcia)

For other uses, see Camp Justice.

Orthographic projection centred over Diego Garcia.

Camp Justice – Diego Garcia.

Diego Garcia from the air.

Camp Justice is a United States military base on Diego Garcia, a small, strategically located, isolated island in the Indian Ocean. The island is in the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. American forces have used the Island since at least the mid-1960s, under lease from the United Kingdom. The island has both port facilities and an airstrip, capable of handling the largest aircraft.

The population is estimated at 1700 military personnel with a further 1500 civilian contractors, which are mostly American with around 50 British troops stationed there.

Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the USA had been using Diego Garcia for the detention and torture of individuals captured in the "Global War On Terror". In 2006 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the "high-value detainees," was suspected to have been held in Diego Garcia.

The camp was renamed to "Camp Thunder Cove" in July 2006.

Formally, the base is known as Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia (the U.S. activity) or Permanent Joint Operating Base (PJOB) Diego Garcia (the UK's term).