Court overturns Bots-Nam �refugee abduction� deal

Boster Samuele was one of eight applicants who, in their treason case in the Namibian courts, argued at the Supreme Court that he had been kidnapped by the Namibian military from Botswana to stand trial in Windhoek.

The applicants are among the last defendants in the long-running treason trial stemming from an attempt at cessation by Caprivi Strip militants between 1998 and 1999. Namibian soldiers squashed the revolt, leading hundreds to flee to asylum in Botswana where today they number more than 1,000 at Dukwi Refugee Camp. Samuele and his co-accused were accused of high treason, sedition, public violence and the illegal importation of weapons and ammunition related to the Caprivi Strip conflict.