a triumph for human rights.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bushmen-win-land-bid/2006/12/14/1165685788650.htmlBotswana's indigenous San or Kalahari bushmen have won a long-running court bid for the right to return to their ancestral land from which they were evicted by the government in 2002.
Two out of three judges ruled in favour of the bushmen in the much-anticipated verdict in High Court in Lobatse, some 60km south of the capital Gaborone.
Leaders and members of the dwindling community descended from the original inhabitants of the Central Kalahari Game reserve who have in recent years been relocated to nearby settlements with formal housing, schools and health facilities celebrated the verdict at the courthouse.
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Allegations that the government of the world's largest diamond-producing nation planned to prospect for diamonds in the reserve were met with outrage from government officials who claim the resettlement of the bushmen was aimed at improving their lives.
The plight of the bushmen also sparked criticism of South African diamond-mining giant De Beers for its partnership with the Botswana government in the diamond-mining sector.
(Of course diamonds played no part in relocation...how could anyone think such a thing?!? Must be more of that radical fringe :sarcasm:)
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