On 19th
September the High Court in Arusha declared that the 1,502 km2
brutal land theft called “Pololeti Game Controlled Area” in Loliondo was null
and void for lack of consultation and for having been replaced by a “Pololeti
Game Reserve” declared by the president. Besides that the same lack of
consultation (including the abduction of all councillors of affected wards on
the eve of the brutal and unlawful military demarcation attack) applies to the
game reserve, it has its own court case with a court order to stop all
operation until determination of the case. The relative independence shown by
the court was a pleasant surprise, but it should not have come as a surprise
that the Tanzanian government is lawless, issued a statement with its own
“interpretation” of the ruling, increased harassment and threats, and after a
brief reprieve, returned to seizing cattle and the situation is dire. Now
those most directly involved, with concrete evidence of contempt of court, have
been sued in their personal capacity, including DC Raymond Mwangwala.
The Tanzanian
government, funded and facilitated by Germany (the Germans should not be
allowed to get away with this …) continues its efforts to legitimize the
massive, brutal and unlawful land theft.
The 77th
Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is
currently being held in Arusha and the journalist and activist Odero Charles
Odero has there been harassed about his citizenship for speaking up about
Loliondo and Ngorongoro. Then the ACHPR has been questioned for its government commandeered visit early this year and for not finishing its report.
In Ngorongoro
Conservation Area - not to be mixed up with Loliondo - restrictions and
illegal suffocation of every aspect of life continue at the same time as
incessant government propaganda to make the Maasai relocate. The people that
following protests in Endulen were mass arrested are now harassed by having to
report at Karatu Police Station every four days. The NCAA has again denied
adulterated replacement salt, for which there were laboratory result already almost
two years ago. At least it seems like the horrible chief conservator Freddy
Manongi is finally retiring.
Almost every
issue mentioned in this blog post needs to be written about in its own long
blog post …
Where is
Oriais Oleng’iyo?
The criminals just keep escalating their crime. When I had finally posted this blog post I got reports that TANAPA rangers had seized hundreds of cattle in the 1,500km2 area and driven them to Serengeti by force!
Updates at the end of the blog post.
In this blog post:
The ruling -
Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022
The
government’s malicious interpretation of the ruling
Grazing and
violence after the High Court ruling
At last sued
for contempt of court!
Odero harassed about citizenship at ACPHR session – with good events and traitors
Continued pressure
for German-funded crime legitimization
The Germans
MUST be sued for their relentless facilitation of violent dispossession
We also have
the cases in the East African Court of Justice
Brief Loliondo hunting block background
Briefly about
the 2022 threats leading up to the brutal and illegal demarcation
Briefly about
the brutal and illegal demarcation of an illegal "game reserve"
NCA, bye bye
Manongi, and the government again denies well-documented adulterated salt, UNESCO
again
Apologies
and reflexions on very long and horribly delayed blog posts
