DISAPPEARING WORLD: 11 KALAHARI BUSHMEN
With genetic evidence linking them with the first Homo sapiens of more than 100,000 years ago, the Bushmen are the world's oldest human community. However, this hasn't prevented them being evicted from their ancient territories " the dry Savannah of red sand, camel thorn and scrub encompassed by Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve. There, amid wildebeest and lions, the Bushmen have lived as hunter-gatherers for at least 20,000 years. The Botswana government says their continued presence is incompatible with the conservation of wildlife, although human-rights activists claim the prospect of diamond mining in the ancestral lands is the real motive behind the eviction.
The Bushmen say they have been subjected to beatings and torture and that now there are fewer than 50 of their kind still left on the land.
The Bushmen say they have been subjected to beatings and torture and that now there are fewer than 50 of their kind still left on the land.
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18 Octobre 2005 à 13:33 dans
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