-Minister Pindi Chana has, against
every law and procedure, a week after the illegal and very violent operation
started, “gazetted” a fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Controlled Area”.
-Government officials have kept
landing in helicopter to, as from the warfront, say that the exercise is going
just fine and is participatory, at the same time as issuing threats and clapping
to war songs performed by massive security forces.
-The Maasai landowners and their
livestock are suffering mostly untold abuse. Independent press is blocked from
the area and does not exist in Tanzania anyway.
-Nine councillors and the CCM
District Chairman were arrested the day before the illegal demarcation started
and have together with 15 (or now 17) other people been charged with the murder
of a FFU officer who was killed after the local leaders were locked up.
-Hundreds of Maasai have been injured,
at least 31 seriously, and thousands have fled to Kenya.
-In areas of Malambo, and elsewhere,
the Maasai are being chased away from their homes.
-The this time without any exception anti-Maasai
expressions among government supporters make this the most dangerous attack so
far, but also more Tanzanians than ever before are aware of what’s happening and
expressing their support for the Maasai.
-Then started mass arrests of Maasai
accused of being so-called “Kenyans”, arson of seasonal bomas, and illegal mass
seizing of livestock.
-The government, that already has
the huge Serengeti National Park, is lawless, boundaryless and brutal in
satisfying the thirst for Maasai land by the conservation-tourism industrial
complex, in this case OBC that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai.
- Where is over 70-years old Oriais Oleng'iyo who was last seen
injured and detained by security forces on 10th June?
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