‘Canada, come get your people’: Namibian communities reported abuses to the human rights watchdog Canada built. Two years later, the complaint is still unanswered and the office is gone.

POSTED IN COMMENTARY ‘Canada, come get your people’: Namibian communities reported abuses to the human rights watchdog Canada built. Two years later, the complaint is still unanswered and the office is gone. BY ROB PARKER JUNE 15, 2026 Author Rob Parker with Rinaani Musutua's son taking water samples from a borehole near ReConAfrica drill area in northern Namibia. Credit: contributed “We are tourists. We just want to take some pictures” said Rinaani, phone at arm’s length, scanning rows of vegetables that never should have been grown.  “We know who you are,” one of the roughnecks replied whi…