BOTSWANA: Bushmen are real diamonds

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 10:00

Feminist Gloria Steinam joined around 30 people to protest the opening of De Beer's first US store, telling media that the "Bushmen are the real diamonds of the Kalahari". The Botswanan government has been evicting the Bushmen from their traditional homes in the Kalahari, where De Beer's has a diamond mine. The then-head of De Beer's publicly welcomed the decision to evict the Bushmen in 1997. In the latest incident in early June, three Bushmen were tortured by wildlife officials for suspected hunting. To help, visit < http://www.survival-A HREF="mailto:international.org"><international.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, June 29, 2005.

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