Between 1967 and 1973 2000 residents of the Chagos Islands were evacuated by the British in order to allow the US to build its Indian Ocean base at Diego Garcia.
Thirty-five years after his people were ejected from their Indian Ocean paradise by the British Government, young Jean Redi Bancoult has not forgotten his motherland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/835963.stm
Advocates for the rights of residents displaced from the islands for the construction of the US Naval Base at Diego Garcia. Information about the islands and their native population. http://www.chagos.org/home.htm