A group of internationally renowned veterinary experts have today dismissed as 'spurious' the Botswana government's given reason for the closure of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen's reserve.
The Bushmen are facing a new and severe assault on their rights since the resumption of their three-year court case against the government for evicting them from their ancestral lands in the central Kalahari.
Gana and Gwi Bushmen who have returned to their land were today ordered to leave within ten days.
Wildlife guards have entered the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and are threatening Bushmen at gunpoint.
The Guarani Ñandeva community of Yvy Katu is facing the threat of eviction from its land in the first week of September.
The Botswana government's lead attorney in the Bushman case was today ordered to be arrested and imprisoned.
Lani tribesman Benny Wenda, who is living as a refugee in the UK, reports today that the people of his home village in Pyramid, Papua, are still in hiding after the army attacked in July.
The Malaysian Court of Appeal has overturned a 2001 High Court decision which recognised the land rights of the Iban people of Sarawak.