Five years of the fifth phase
government in Tanzania are nearing their end. I should write a summary of what
has happened concerning the land threats in Loliondo and Ngorongoro district as
a whole. This isn’t easy. Even with more fearful silence than ever, much has
happened, and apparently insignificant events turn out significant with
hindsight. The summary is too long, but I hope it will be read anyway and that
those reading it will try to do something to stop the police state and the land
alienation plans.
Sadly, I must warn anyone
looking for something inspirational about brave indigenous resistance. Don’t
read this blog post. These ugly five years have been filled with fearfulness,
corruption, and treason. Though maybe, maybe a change is on the way.
In the future I will post an
improved version, including 1992–2015. If anything in this blog post needs to be
corrected or updated, I will mark the edit in a visible way, and I may continue
adding links after publishing.
In this long
blog post:
Brief introduction to what had happened before 2015
OBC and the Osero
Thomson Safaris
NCA
2015 with further divide and rule, intimidation, and elections
Divide and rule continued
Jerry Muro doing anti-Loliondo
propaganda
Brutal evictions and confusion
Anti-Kenyan operation
Unbelievable
treason
DC
Mgandilwa and his dangerous follies
DC/OBC/Oloipiri against Kirtalo
Protest in Sukenya
Illegally arrested
Never-ending lies about
giraffes
2015 elections
2016 when everything got so much worse
Manyerere Jackton continued and
increased his old anti-Loliondo incitement in the Jamhuri
Charity as a weapon again
Multiple illegal arrests with
the aim to silence everyone
Further incitement and OBC’s
report
Majaliwa “solving the
conflict” via Gambo’s committee
2017 with massive human rights crimes
Drought and further weakened
leaders while the RC’s committee continued its work
What’s a GCA 2009?
Maghembe and his co-opted
committee
Spontaneous protests
Meanwhile grazing areas were
lost in Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Proposal by the RC’s committee
and unused parliament seat
Brutal, illegal, and
unexpected invasion of village land and silent MP
Kigwangalla becomes a hero and
then makes an ugly U-turn
Majaliwa’s decision
2018 with silence and extreme brutality
committed by soldiers
Kigwangalla’s U-turn
Military camp
Daylight corruption when OBC
again brought gifts to the MNRT
Secret meeting for a
“friendlier” version of Majaliwa’s decision
Oakland report and Kigwangalla
goes totally insane
Exterminating the opposition
Kigwangalla’s budget
Intimidation drive to derail
the case in the EACJ
Soldiers attacking herders
The bizarre case of mistaken
identity
The East African Court of
Justice finally issued interim measures
Soldier brutality, burning
bomas in violation of court orders
2019 with death, a faint glimmer of hope, and
then a genocidal proposal
More illegal arrests ordered by
DC Rashid Mfaume Taka
The RC condemning the burning
of bomas in a strange and vague way
The president’s surprising
statement
Perjury in the EACJ
OBC’s Mollel gets caught by
PCCB and is locked up to rot in remand prison while all his accomplices remain
untouched
Science magazine article
deeply embedded with human rights criminals
JWTZ soldiers killing Babuche
in Wasso town
Threats in the press
The genocidal proposal
Reports about the strangest
study tour to OBC’s camp
2020 that will hopefully not just be a sad, long funeral for democracy
Mwananchi interview with
Kigwangalla
Renewed negotiations with
those who keep insisting on the genocidal proposal
MOU about the Pastoral Council
Visit to Kigwangalla and
feedback meeting
Councillor reports about abuse
and sabotage committed by NCA rangers and then the criminal DC receives much
praise for intervening
Information about NCAA funds
at councillors’ meeting
Kigwangalla threatens Lake
Natron
Statement from Ngorongoro ward
Elections …
