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17 Feb 2021
Unicef Nederland has answered my email. Unicef Botswana did not send an answer. Child Frontiers did. They will send my comments on the report to Unicef Botswana.
15 Feb 2021
Despite the fact that the Second World War in the Netherlands came to an end almost 76 years ago, the feeling to be run over by another nation manifested itself again last night in a nightmare. In a dense and long line, planes went through the air towards the enemy to stop them. On the ground there was panic. Someone on a motorbike drove through the front entrance of our shed with 1 km an hour and out through the backentrance, and back, searching for the enemy. I was born on 18 January 1943, where in January 1943 three bombings were carried out, killing 200 people. Although our house was not hit, houses close by were. My eleven year old sister asked my mother: "Why are there doors flying past our house?" I did not take in the atrocities and oppression during 1940- 1945. Later came the nightmares. When the Dutch Airforce is doing training flights in our area I do not like it.
Our oppression only lasted for five years. I wonder how the San are feeling now, after centuries of oppression by tribes who came univited to live on their land, took it over and forced the San to work for them, in exchange for a little food. After that came the English to protect the land. And after that the Dutch and English from South Africa. A few year ago I had a conversation with a 21 year old South African woman. She told me: "I do not understand why those black one want to kill us." I said: "Maybe because you took their land?" The answer was: "When we came there, the land belonged to no one." I was lacking wisdom to give a good reply to this.
In The Netherlands a discussion has started if the Dutch Government should apologize to the descendants of slaves, for the part the Dutch have had in the slave trade. I wonder if the Botswana should apologize to the San for the injustice the Tswana tribes have done to them.











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