On 19th May 2023 the
councillors at Ngorongoro District Council voted in unison to reject in total
the utter madness of the government’s German-facilitated draft 2023-2043 Ngorongoro
District Land Use Framework Plan that’s fabricated to legitimize the brutal
land grab in Loliondo, and a private motion on suffocation of social services
in NCA was supported by all councillors.
Currently a Maasai delegation is in Europe and will hopefully severely deal with those who are facilitating and encouraging the crimes by the Tanzanian government against the Maasai. This evening, 31st May, they attended a public event at the EU Parliament: Forced Evictions in the Name of Conservation: the Role of the EU. I've never written as quickly as a wrote about this event ... (see below, under Maasai delegation to Europe) The evil, lying Tanzanian government representatives fuelled me. Otherwise, this blog post is terribly delayed.
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More worrying is that the CCM Political Committee Arusha Region, with the implementor of the war against the Maasai, RC John Mongella, are currently touring the district, inspecting projects in Loliondo and Sale, and have already been seen in company of councillors.
The land has not been returned
and the Tanzanian government keep taking the livestock. Decades of land rights
struggle in Loliondo could not protect the 1,500 km2 - essential for
lives and livelihoods - from a government high on tourist cult and the blood of
pastoralists. Almost a year ago, all councillors from affected wards were
abducted right before the brutal and lawless demarcation started. Beacons were
planted in a rain of teargas and bullets, security forces were beating,
slashing, cutting, raping and arresting people. Thousands fled to Kenya,
hundreds were arrested and over sixty were charged with bogus immigration cases
that were dismissed – without any attempt at prosecution - months later. The
security forces destroyed houses, stole motorcycles and smartphones, seized and
even shot livestock. Oriais Oleng'iyo who was last seen on 10th June
2022, with bullet wounds and held by security forces, has still not been
brought back to his family, and the enforced disappearance case filed by his
son was on 17th May dismissed by the judge.
The war against the Maasai
continue with the government’s different shades of rangers going after
livestock lawlessly seizing, fining, and even auctioning. Livestock will always
have to enter the land, until the Maasai are no more, but that’s exactly what
the evil Tanzanian government is working on. The other front is to make all
local leaders useless by terrorizing, threatening, and compromising them. The
fake and forced land grab legitimization goes on, facilitated by the Germans.
This must have consequences for the amoral Bundesrepublik. At least
local leaders seem to still be resisting.
In this blog post:
The cattle
rustling Serengeti rangers getting away with disobeying court orders
Other cattle
rustling by rangers
The
anti-pastoralist president ranting again
German-facilitated fake and forced land use planning terror rejected by all
councillors
Maasai
delegation to Europe
Human Rights
Watch investigating and speaking up, and some press
UN Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues where the Tanzanian government kept lying
Letter from
the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The very many
court cases
Msomera
villagers speaking up and a reminder of the NCAA threats that keep intensifying
NCA protest
banners at visit by the VP
Don’t mix up
Loliondo and NCA!
Briefest
mention of colonial conservation elsewhere in Tanzania
Updates at the end of this blog post.
