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The US tried to get rid of the inhabitants of Diego Garcia by gassing the pets to death in front their owner to intimidate them and restricting their food and supplies so that it could build a military base.

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The island nation of Diego Garcia whose people were expelled by the British in 1971 and forced to live in Mauritian slums, just so that the US could build a military base on the island

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1. From 1968-1973, UK govt. forcefully expelled all the Chagossians (inhabitants of Chagos Archipelago in Indian Ocean) from their home islands at the request of US govt., in order to build an American military base on Diego Garcia (biggest island in Archipelago) very ironically named Camp Justice

2. In order to set up an Army base on the remote island of Diego Garcia in 1971, US and British soldiers used gas to kill all the indigenous people's pets and cut off all imported food and supplies

3. The British expelled the entire population of the island nation of Diego Garcia, sending them to live in Mauritian slums in 1971, so that the US could build a military base on the Island.

4. In 1968 when the U.S. was building the base on Diego Garcia the local inhabitants had to removed first. One tactic was to kill local pets. Dogs were carried into sheds were they were gassed in front of there owners.

5. In the mid 60s, in order to resettle the Diego Garcia archipelago, in compliance with the U.S., the UK sanctioned the gassing of 1000 pets with exhaust fumes; the killing of the pets was taken by the islanders as a warning.

6. The Native Americans were not a one-off: In 1968, the US expelled the entire native population of Diego Garcia (island in the Indian Ocean) so they could make the island a military base. SMH..

7. NASA had over a dozen Transoceanic Abort Landing runways available for the Space Shuttle in an emergency. These ranged from Terceira Island (Portugal) to Easter Island (Chile) and Diego Garcia (UK).