Botswana: Wikileaks: US Embassy Condemned Eviction Of Kalahari Bushmen

Botswana: Wikileaks: US Embassy Condemned Eviction Of Kalahari Bushmen   The US Ambassador to Botswana strongly condemned the government’s forced eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen, according to secret US embassy cables released today.   Ambassador Joseph Huggins told his bosses in Washington in 2005 that the Bushmen had been ‘dumped in economically absolutely unviable situations without forethought, and without follow-up support. The lack of imagination displayed… is breathtaking.’   He...

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