The Sunday Telegraph London, May 25th, 2008
FOR 12 YEARS this column has been reporting on the tragedy unfolding in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the last ancestral homeland of southern Africa's bushmen. When the country gained its independence in 1966, the bushmen's right to remain indefinitely was guaranteed by the constitution, but in 1996 the Botswanan government gave notice that they were to be evicted. Initially both the British Government and the European Union protested, warning that they would withdraw EU subsidies to Botswana's tourist industry unless the evictions were halted. But despite mounting evidence of how...
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