Sir Bruce Greatbatch was the British

Great Britain

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 colonial governor of Seychelles

Seychelles

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 from 1969 to 1973. He oversaw the forced removal of the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago

Chagos Archipelago

The Chagos Archipelago , is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean; situated some due south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands are the southernmost archipelago of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge a long submarine mountain range...

 and ordered the gassing of the islands' canine population of 1,000. He called the Chagossians "unsophisticated" and "untrainable". The evacuation was carried out in order to construct an American

United States

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 military installation on Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean at 7 degrees, 26 minutes south latitude. It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory [BIOT] and is positioned at 72°23' east longitude....

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External links

• "British-US conspiracy to steal a nation" by John Pilger
  John Pilger
  John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based in London. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US....