H.E. President Ian Khama
Office of the President
Private Bag 001
Gaborone
Botswana
Office of the President
Private Bag 001
Gaborone
Botswana
27 February 2009
Your Excellency,
I am extremely concerned about the situation facing the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
After being forcibly removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, many Bushmen living in the resettlement camps are exposed to diseases including HIV/AIDS, which they never experienced before. Alcoholism and depression is widespread.
The High Court ruled that the evictions of the Bushmen were illegal and unconstitutional. I urge you to embrace the spirit of this ruling by allowing all of the Bushmen who wish to return home to do so, and by allowing them to hunt for food and to access their own water using the pre-existing borehole at Mothomelo, within the reserve.
Refusal to allow the Bushmen to use their existing borehole at Mothomelo can only be interpreted as a clear sign that you are determined to continue the past government’s misguided policy of keeping the Bushmen from returning home.
Yours sincerely,
Ana Amorim
Artist
--Survival calls on Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz to boycott Graff's jewels for Oscars 17 February 2009 - http://www.survival-international.org/news/4238
Your Excellency,
I am extremely concerned about the situation facing the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
After being forcibly removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, many Bushmen living in the resettlement camps are exposed to diseases including HIV/AIDS, which they never experienced before. Alcoholism and depression is widespread.
The High Court ruled that the evictions of the Bushmen were illegal and unconstitutional. I urge you to embrace the spirit of this ruling by allowing all of the Bushmen who wish to return home to do so, and by allowing them to hunt for food and to access their own water using the pre-existing borehole at Mothomelo, within the reserve.
Refusal to allow the Bushmen to use their existing borehole at Mothomelo can only be interpreted as a clear sign that you are determined to continue the past government’s misguided policy of keeping the Bushmen from returning home.
Yours sincerely,
Ana Amorim
Artist
--Survival calls on Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz to boycott Graff's jewels for Oscars 17 February 2009 - http://www.survival-international.org/news/4238
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