Botswana government lies exposed as $5bn diamond mine opens on Bushman land

The Ecologist
Sep 4, 2014, 6:18 am44 pts
Ten years after promises of 'no mining' in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a $5 billion diamond mine opens a few miles from a Bushman village. Elsewhere in the Reserve, fracking is under way. And President Ian Khama, a director of Conservation International, denounces the Bushmen as 'poachers' and…

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