This year has been the worst
year ever. With extreme brutality, breaking every law, the Tanzanian government
has turned 1,500 km2 of important grazing land, legally registered
village land in Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro district, into a fake
and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”.
This is not just a violent
operation that took place in June – when mzee Oriais Oleng'iyo was last seen
wounded by bullets and held by security forces. It is an ongoing brutal crime
that continues, in a most deadly way, until the illegal boundary beacons are
uprooted and the lawless Government Notice No.604, issued by the president,
thrown into the waste bin.
The land has been stolen, the
grass has been stolen, livestock keep being stolen and ransom fees demanded,
everybody’s mental health is stolen, all leaders – they had some moments of
usefulness early this year - have become useless cowards through terror. This
terror has been caused by the locking up of all councillors from affected wards
on bogus murder charges for over five months, reporting has almost stopped
through confiscation of smartphones, arrests, and additions to the murder
charges.
This crime is significantly
worse than the illegal evictions with mass arson in 2009 and 2017. Those
attacks had a start and an end when the Maasai could rebuild, while the current
brutality goes on and on.
In Ngorongoro Conservation
Area, not to be confused with Loliondo, restrictions have worsened and hate
propaganda in the press and in parliament have gone mouth-frothingly insane in
this year. It looked like it was there that the government’s violence would
explode, but instead, it did in Loliondo.
However, it is not only
Ngorongoro district. Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government is waging a war against
pastoralists all over Tanzania. The repression and lawlessness of the Magufuli
era have been kept while a crazy tourist cult has become state religion. A
cheesy travel show is the gospel and there is a promise of 5 million tourists
by 2025. Tanzania is a perfect candidate for a total tourism boycott.
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| Let's hope that we will meet 2024 without these two, at least not in their capacity as head of state/emirate. |
In this blog post:
The government’s
continued war against land and livestock
The dropped bogus murder case
Fake and forced land use plans
The war against livestock
The chief criminal Samia and
her German donors
Thomson Safaris
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Court cases
Brief
Loliondo hunting block background
Briefly about
2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation
Briefly about
the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve
