Members of the Gana and Gwi bushmen tribes of the Kalahari used the March 8-12 World Tourism Fair in Berlin to launch a boycott call. The Gana and Gwi are calling for a moratorium on tourist development in the Kalahiri Game Reserve until they are able to return to the reserve, their ancestral home. The Botswanan government commenced forced removal of the Bushmen in the late 1990s. While this policy has been officially abandoned, it has been illegal for tribespeople to gather food on the lands since 2002, and many have been arrested, jailed and tortured for doing so. For more information, visit <http://www.survival-international.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, March 23, 2005.
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