Gana and Gwi Bushmen (San) in Botswana who have returned to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) were on Tuesday ordered to leave within ten days. Armed police and wildlife scouts are camped in the Bushmen’s reserve, and are threatening to shoot them dead, according to the London-based organisation Survival International. The local District Commissioner went to the communities inside the CKGR to deliver the government’s ultimatum. All but thirty of the Bushmen in the reserve were evicted in 2002. Others have since returned despite government opposition, so that there are now 200 to 250 people living on their land. Hundreds more in the resettlement camps are desperate to return. The government’s move comes in defiance of an ongoing court case which is to rule on whether the San have the right to live in the reserve. News of the gun threats will embarrass Botswana’s President Festus Mogae in New York, where he attends the UN summit. In Namibia, the national Society for Human Rights (NSHR) condemned the incident and called on Southern Africa Development Community nations, the African Union, the UN as well as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to address the human rights situation of Botswana’s San people "before it is too late".