Botswana June 2005 |
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| Deported professor a security threat, (Pretoria News, 2005-06-20):-Australian Professor Ken Good was a "threat to national security" over his links with Survival International, the London agency that acts for threatened peoples worldwide, Botswana's President Festus Mogae has said. Good was deported last month after an appeal against a deportation order failed in Botswana's high court. The Botswana newspaper Mmegi reported this week that Mogae ended a recent Press conference by "volunteering information on a question nobody had asked, (and) denying that his operatives might have broken into Good's house and stolen his computer". Mogae described the international concern over the Professor's deportation as a "big hullabaloo over the deportation of a single, solitary white man". The president has alleged that Good and Survival's director Stephen Corry have "written numerous documents in which they described Botswana's diamonds as `blood diamonds'." Good denies this. Professor Good, who had worked at Botswana university for 15 years before his banishment, had both his computers stolen in separate incidents within 10 days. In a statement, Good said: "I have never described Botswana's diamonds as blood diamonds nor have I ever `teamed up' with Survival International to sabotage Botswana's `diamonds for development' campaign. "I have certainly exchanged correspondence with Survival, as I have with a huge number of academics, journalists, and other NGOs. "The only way Mr Mogae would know of my e-mail correspondence is if the government had seen the contents of my computers." | |
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