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At some point no humans existed on earth. But when the UK "took control" (a.k.a. invaded) there were inhabitants that apparently had to be "evicted" (a.k.a. ex

• Symbiote 2y ago
  The 'local' people were workers brought to the island by the British, and then forced to leave the island once the job ended.
  • eesmith 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians says "The Chagossians are a mix of African, Indian and Malay descent.[4] The French brought some to the Chagos Islands as slaves from Mauritius in 1786. Others arrived as fishermen, farmers, and coconut plantation workers during the 19th century." The slaves brought there by the French predate British control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians adds that before 1835, the "workers brought to the island by the British" were not really "workers" but forcibly transported slaves, in the same sense that the slaves the English brought to Jamaica were "workers."
  • cies 2y ago
    > The 'local' people were workers brought to the island by the British, and then forced to leave the island once the job ended. You are using exactly the kind of positive wording for horrible things that I was making a point against. Slavery = job. Slave = worker Brought to = forcefully shipped to as slaves "local" = more local than the policy makers that decided they had to make place for a military base Human Rights Watch called it a crime against humanity. And it takes quite a bit of evil for them to do so wrt a western countries crimes.