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.
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- The Provisional Peoples Democratic Republic of Diego Garcia Tongue in cheek site from US servicemen who served, or are serving, in Diego Garcia.
- BBC NEWS | UK | Q&A: Chagos Islands dispute Background to the battle for compensation between thousands of Chagos islanders and the British Government.
- BBC NEWS | UK | Diego Garcia: remembering paradise lost 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.