Botswana allowing hundreds of Bushmen to be abused

CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE, BOTSWANA-Hundreds of Bushmen have been beaten, arrested and abused in Botswana according to a recent report from Survival International. The report details over 200 cases of violent abuse recorded between 1992 and 2014, abuses such as a Bushman who died after being tortured; a child shot in the stomach after his father refused police entry to his hut without a warrant; and a Bushman who was buried alive for killing an antelope.

Bushmen were illegally evicted from their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the name of "conservation". The Botw...

 
 
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