As Botswana persists on the repatriation of Namibian refugees – currently housed at the Dukwi Refugee Camp, some 100km northwest of Francistown – back to their native country, anger and fury amongst the refugees is growing. In 1998, Namibian refugees fled from their motherland, Caprivi Strip in the Zambezi region into Botswana following a secessionist crisis. Caprivians, as people from the Caprivi Strip are affectionately known, have been and are resisting voluntary repatriation to their native country, arguing that the Namibian government is planning to arrest them upon setting their feet in the country. The refugees are also angry at Botswana for conniving with the Namibian administration to force them to be repatriated. The refugees are also accusing the Namibian government of not willing to have a dialogue with them before returning. It is against this backdrop that the anger and fury amongst the refugees is slowly but surely reaching a boiling point. They have threatened to resort to violence if the Namibian government does not accede to their demand of making Caprivi Strip an independent state. “We (the refugees) would like to respond (with violence) to the ill developments that are planned against us, to destroy our future, our…