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Botswana Government Forces Bushmen From Their Homes 

All but a few of the Bushmen living in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forcibly removed from their homes in recent days in what spokesmen for the affected communities said is a final push by the government to end human habitation there after tens of thousands of years.

The First People of the Kalahari, an activist group in Botswana, said Bushmen villages have been cut off from their main sources of food and water, and outsiders have been prohibited from entering to provide relief for the past six weeks. . . .

The First People of the Kalahari loaded five trucks full of corn meal, water and tobacco on Sept. 24 in an attempt to defy the quarantine. The confrontation grew violent, and police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd, injuring one [This graph only]

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