Police dismisses Survival International claims - statement

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Botswana Police Service (BPS) would like to respond to allegations made by Survival International in a statement dated 11th August, 2016 entitled: “Botswana: Helicopter Crashes after Shooting at Bushmen.”

For the record we wish to affirm that the allegation that people were shot at from a police helicopter is without any foundation whatsoever. There has in fact never been any occasion in which Botswana Police have ever shot at people from a helicopter either in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR), or for that matter anywhere else.

We also take this opportunity to dismiss as baseless the statement’s further allegation that nine Bushmen were stripped and beaten while in police custody.

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