Open letter to Mogae

Dear President Mogae,

As you know, the court found we had been illegally and
unconstitutionally made to leave our land. It found that the government had acted against the law when it stopped issuing hunting licences to us in 2002 and that what was done to us was tantamount to condemning us to death.

If the court found all these things, why are we still not able to go home?
*We have been denied access to our water borehole
*We have been told we may not hunt
*We have been arrested, beaten and tortured for attempting to hunt
*Many of us have been told we need visitor permits to return to our own homes
*We have been given no assistance to fund our return home, even though the government spent many hundreds of thousands of pula to evict us. Since the government acted illegally when it evicted us, surely it should pay for us to go back home?

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