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Botswana Court Rules Bushmen Wrongly Evicted

Botswana's high court ruled Tuesday that more than 1,000 Bushmen were wrongly evicted from their homeland, a nature reserve in the Kalahari desert. Bushmen have been living on the land for more than 20,000 years.

Alex Chadwick talks with Craig Timberg of the Washington Post about the decision.

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