A Boycott

I came across an interesting web site today that shed more bad light on De Beers. It’s a web site promoting a boycott of De Beers. It focuses on another issue besides that of the company’s dealings with conflict diamonds. The site talks about how De Beers in collaboration with the Botswana government has forced the indigenous people of the Kalahari Desert (located in the southern African country of Botswana) out of their land and into camps. These people are called the Bushmen. Unfortunately for them, they happen to inhabit a land that is one of the “richest diamond producing areas in the world.” De Beers owns all of the diamond mines in that area of Africa, and operates hand in hand with the Botswana government. Together they have forced The Bushman off their land and into camps outside the diamond reserves.

I am mortified by this accusation. I can’t believe that De Beers would be involved in forcing people off their own territory. Well, actually I can believe that they would do such a thing. I guess if De Beers has no problem with dealing in blood diamonds, then it's no surprise that the company with such an immoral soul would push an entire indigenous population off their land.