ICC throws out Namibians case

Sedudu Island showing Namibia on the opposite side PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
Sedudu Island showing Namibia on the opposite side PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

A Namibian pressure group, Caprivi Concerned Group (CCG) which in August reported President Mokgweetsi Masisi and Botswana Defence Force (BDF) commander, Placid Segokgo to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the deaths of four Namibian alleged poachers have had their matter dismissed.

Relentless in their mission to have Botswana account, the Namibians have now submitted the brothers ‘execution’ to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) last week.

Following the November 2020 incident in which the BDF anti-poaching unit shot and killed three Nchindo brothers and a Zambian cousin on suspicion that they were poachers, CCG will not let the matter rest.

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