Displacing indigenous island peoples to build bases was a systemic U.S. pattern

Evidence

That the Navy would expel indigenous peoples from both Diego Garcia and Bikini is no coincidence. Around the world, often on islands and in other isolated locations, the U.S. military long displaced indigenous groups to create bases. In most cases the displaced populations have ended up deeply impoverished, like the Chagossians and Bikinians. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 196

Categorization

• XREF: This systemic-pattern claim parallels themes in the earlier Frankfort part of the German restitution chapter and the concept of institutions functioning as sacrificial systems. — connects to: American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273