Bushmen protest loss of ancestral land: Believe Botswana leaders tied too closely to De Beers
Representatives of Botswana's Bushmen population who have been resettled away from their ancestral land in the Kalahari desert brought their protest to Britain yesterday, as they demonstrated outside the showroom of the De Beers diamond giant.
The Bushmen claim the government of Botswana and De Beers are trying to steal their ancestral lands to exploit their mineral wealth.
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