Sunday, November 07, 2010

Kalahari Bushmen being starved in Botswana to make way for diamond mining...

An international boycott of Botswana diamonds aims to draw greater attention to the government's mistreatment of native Kalahari Bushmen.

The rights group Survival International launched the boycott in San Francisco and London Tuesday with a protest outside the diamond retailer De Beers, which is partly owned by the Botswana government.

With the support of several celebrity endorsements, the group is also urging a boycott of tourism to Botswana "until the Bushmen are allowed to live on their ancestral land in peace". More...

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