Thursday 27 February 2020

New or by Now Old Year, Old Silence, and the Same Unanswered Questions about Loliondo


Three months have passed since the latest blog post, which is unacceptable and can only be explained with that everyone is saying that there isn’t anything happening (very improbable) and that I (thousands of kilometres away) know more than they do. This does however not excuse my silence when there are so many old truths to keep reminding of, and unanswered questions to keep asking.  However madly disappointed I am with “some” people in Loliondo, and however exhausted I am by unrelated unsolvable problems, I must never again stay quiet for this long.

For a brief reminder of what this blog is about: Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo, who already lost land with the creation of Serengeti National Park, have kept being threatened with “conservation”, and due to the influence of tourism investors been victims of human rights crimes and suffered (keep suffering) a local police state with all government officials at the service of these investors that want to manage the land.

In this blog post:
Resumed hearing in the East African Court of Justice

How could a whole year pass without anyone speaking up about the soldier violence – arson included - of 2018?

Why has OBC’s director, Isaack Mollel been locked up in remand prison for almost a year?

Why has Kigwangalla sued the Jamhuri magazine? (This part may be outdated and irrelevant)

What’s the government’s plan?

Summary of Osero developments the past decades

There are of course more questions than these, and they will be asked in coming blog posts.