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Botswana is persecuting its Kalahari bushmen — and we had a role in it

Already evicted, tortured and deprived of water, the bushmen face devastating new restrictions

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

For 17 years I have been reporting on one of the most haunting tragedies of our modern world — the ruthless persecution of the last survivors of the original inhabitants of southern Africa, the bushmen, by a policy seemingly designed to wipe them from the earth. Those responsible are not wicked white colonialists but the government of Botswana, which, thanks to its vast diamond reserves, is per capita the richest country in Africa.

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Christopher Booker is a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph.

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