In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by a German coffee firm on a 99-year lease...Many of the residents from Kyengeza village...have always insisted that they were forcefully driven off from their land...Margaret Nakiyingi, 29, is one of the evictees...“We are now suffering because we are in rented houses and have no land to cultivate. Some of our colleagues acquired land away from the coffee farm,” Margaret said...Neumann Kaffee Gruppe...insists that it leased the land in good faith from the Ugandan government. The firm claims the Ugandan government compensated 166 families...FIAN international...started a campaign to protest against what it calls "brutal evictions". It is also demanding adequate restitution for those who lost their land. The protests led Germany's Development Minister Dirk Niebel to write a letter to FIAN asking them to cease their activities...since...some coffee traders in Germany have started to boycott Ugandan coffee...