NGO attacks industry over Bushmen. (Diamond Notes). From: Jewelers Circular Keystone | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Bates, Rob | COPYRIGHT 2002 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Another human rights group is taking swipes at the diamond industry, this time charging that diamond reserves are uprooting the Bushmen of Botswana.

Survival International, which describes itself as "a worldwide organization supporting tribal people," has run ads about the forced removal of the Bushmen in newspapers in Canada, Australia, and Britain. A p.r. campaign has led to publicity on National Public Radio and in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Christian Science M...