Government still violating Basarwa rights

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Press reports about the recent letter from the Attorney General to the Basarwa's lawyers give a clear indication that the government remains determined to drive them from their ancestral homeland, irrespective of the judgement of the High Court.

What a sad tragedy this is, both for Basarwa and for all Botswana. The three-month-old judgement proved that the government had acted illegally and in violation of Botswana's constitution in forcibly evicting the Basarwa and preventing their return to the CKGR.
  

It also proved that the government illegally withheld their licences to hunt for food.
 One might have expected a reasonable and democratic government to react by immediately issuing the licences, telling the Basarwa that those who wished to return could do so and promising they would no longer be harassed by officials. 

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