Botswana: Botswana Government Rejects High-Profile Court Ruling

Botswana: Botswana Government Rejects High-Profile Court Ruling   Four years on from a court victory which saw the Kalahari Bushmen win the right to live on their ancestral lands, the Botswana government has issued a statement flouting the ruling.   In 2002, the Botswana government forcibly evicted the Bushmen from their ancestral lands inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. On 13th December 2006, after the longest and most expensive legal battle in the country’s history, Botswana’s High...

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