"From 1967 to 1973, British officials and military officers – in secret and for a secret fee of $14 million, paid by the U.S. military unlawfully (without Congressional authorization) – forcibly evicted, arrested, detained, deported, and excluded permanently from their homeland the entire indigenous citizen population of all 65 islands (every last man, woman, and child), an ethnic-cleansing which (as they secretly admitted at the time) violated the United Nations Charter and other U.S. and international law and, as a British Court ruled 30 years later, British domestic law as well (Nov. 3 2000)."
Hardly the same as bunging Bennies £1M and a one-way ticket each!
See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...317945,00.html for more information on the scandalous treatment of the islanders of Diego Garcia.