The population of the British Indian Ocean Territory were all deported, to clear the island of Diego Garcia for a large US airbase. It's one of the grubbiest recent bits of British imperial manoevering.
Also, in 2009 an attempt was made to prevent resettlement by declaring the area a marine reserve. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Court_battle
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_fr...
Edit to add: just to be clear, the UK had bought these people's homeland something like five years previously. Bought.
This hits me from a deep emotional place. We shouldn't do things like this. The deeper and more connected this giant web becomes for me, and the more parts I know about, the more everything I've ever known comes into question. It feels as if the final episode will be the big reveal that Bruce Wayne is on the therapist's lounge discovering his second alter-ego, the Joker.