> original inhabitants Is a pretty misleading phrase: they were 1000 or so slaves brought by the French to otherwise unoccupied islands. They should have been

> original inhabitants Is a pretty misleading phrase: they were 1000 or so slaves brought by the French to otherwise unoccupied islands. They should have been compensated like any other group of people whose government wants to build a military base, or a dam, or a highway on their land - but it's not like it was some kind of genocide. Much worse things have happened in pretty much every country on the globe.