In 1956 the government finally gave them Mongolian citizenship and resettled them at Tsagaan Nuur Lake on the Shishigt River.

Under the policy, the Tutsi-led government of President Pierre Buyoya has forcibly resettled 300,000 mostly ethnic Hutus in dozens of spartan camps.

The Greek government especially resettled the refugees in Komotini, Xanthi and Sapes regions where the majority of Muslim Turks lived.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi government resettled Arab families in their place in an attempt to reduce the political power and presence of ethnic minorities, a process known as Arabization.

From 1990 to 2007, an independent report said that the government had resettled approximately 800 Black farmers on land bought for redistribution.

Whatever the truth, Houston had disappeared for a time along the Arkansas River, where the government had resettled his old friends, the Cherokees.

The government has since resettled black squatters on hundreds of white-owned farms in an effort to win support from rural communities hungry for land.

The Soviet government in 1962 resettled many of the Nivkh into fewer, denser settlements, such that Sakhalin settlements had been reduced from 82 to 13 by 1986.

The government also resettled some small groups of Kalmyks along the Ural, Terek and Kuma rivers and in Siberia.

By 1986, according to Mulatu Wubne, the government had resettled more than 600,000 people.