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Article

1 Aug 2005

Author:
De Beers

[PDF] De Beers Calls for a Halt to Survival International’s Deliberate Deception

...Survival International [is engaging] in a knowingly dishonest campaign, which seeks to use diamonds as an issue to leverage pressure on the Government of Botswana to change its policies on rural and social development...De Beers continues to challenge Survival International to provide any credible evidence to support its allegation that the relocation of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) is linked either to the prospecting for diamonds in the Reserve or to De Beers in particular. [also refers to Gope Exploration (joint venture De Beers & NorandaFalconbridge (Falconbridge)]

Part of the following timelines

Botswana Govt. attorney ordered arrested for contempt of High Court during hearing on expulsion of Bushmen from Kalahari reserve - Survival Intl. calls for boycott of Botswana tourism & De Beers diamonds

Botswana: Survival Intl. says that Bushmen are making "last stand" against raids by police on reserve & that tourists to Botswana & those who buy diamonds from De Beers are complicit in Bushmen's evictions

Botswana: Survival Intl. responds to allegations by De Beers & maintains that diamonds are at root of eviction of Bushmen from ancestral lands