
Ethnic cleansing reaches final phase
Dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.
Dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.
Three Bushmen, including one child, have been shot and wounded in recent days by Botswana police in a series of incidents designed to intimidate the Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all.
The government of the Indian state of Jharkhand has declared that tribal people from different parts of the state will be taken on tours to visit cities.
Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, there was a dramatic turnaround today in the fortunes of the Kalahari Bushmen as they learnt they have won the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.
Bushman leaders arrested on 24 September were beaten in custody by policemen including the superintendent, it has emerged today.
The leaders of the Bushman organisation First People of the Kalahari have been arrested and imprisoned.
The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana are being starved from their homes by Botswana wildlife officers, reports a Bushman today.
A Brazilian appeals court ruled last week that the Guarani Ñandeva Indians of Yvy Katu can keep their land.