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This is excellent that the rights of the Batwa Peoples may actually be restored. But it should be plainly spelled out in the settlements, that if, after receiving title for their land and resources, they should choose to “sell out” to, for instance, an oil or mining company, that their Indigenousness expires upon Capitalization. Too often, big business can come in (as they do for offsets programmes) with weasel-words and promises, and acquire extractive rights from the people. Any such corporate or neo-colonial extractivism should annul the settlements.

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