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/ 8 July 2005

Botswana diamonds lose their sparkle

Police had to hold back a placard-wielding crowd of fifty from disrupting a glitzy celebrity party at the London Natural History Museum where diamonds from South African mining company De Beers were being exhibited. The charity Survival International organised the protest to highlight the Botswana Bushmen’s claim that their land had been taken away from them to mine the diamonds.