Survival advert condemns torture of bushmen

Survival has placed a full-page advert in the UK's Independent newspaper today, condemning the torture of Bushmen evicted from their land in the Kalahari in Botswana and appealing to the British public to support them.

The ad shows pictures of ten of the men arrested and beaten, tortured or assaulted in Kaudwane resettlement camp in September, and asks, 'What does it take to let these people live in peace?'

The ad reads, 'Last year, the Bushmen of Botswana won an historic victory. Expelled from their ancient homeland, the Bushmen took the government to court - and won.

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