singular_me
27th February 2015, 03:20 PM
makes me think of the quote:.... Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
and soon in the west, many will lose their homes, properties or be evicted
looks like the definition of savages will get soon very blurred.
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Tanzania breaks promise - thousands of Maasai evicted to make way for lion hunt
The Ecologist
27th February 2015
The Tanzanian government is illegally carrying out gunpoint evictions of Maasai pastoralists in an area surrounded by the Serengeti, Maasai Mara and Ngorongoro national parks, burning hundreds of homes.
It's all part of a plan to make way for luxury game hunting in the area. Ortello Business Corporation (OBC) - a luxury hunting company based in the United Arab Emirates with close connections to the Dubai Royal Family - occupied a 1,500 square km area of Maasai community land in 1992.
Since then OBC has built a private airport and exclusive hunting retreats - and deployed a range of tactics to prevent indigenous Maasai people from accessing their land: cutting them off from vital grazing land and water points; pushing the community ever closer to collapse.
In 2009, a mass eviction of Maasai villages within the 1,500 square kilometres took place. Over 200 homes were burned, leaving over 3,000 people homeless. According to witnesses, the operation was undertaken by the Tanzanian Field Force Unit with assistance from private security guards representing OBC (see Olosho video, below).....
Three things are inseparable: land, animals and people
There are no alternative pastures for the pastoralist Maasai of Loliondo, who were already once evicted from their ancestral lands in 1959 by the British colonial government to make way for the Serengeti National Park.
Herding is an integral part of Maasai cultural identity and the loss of indigenous traditions cannot be compensated by either cash payments or promises of 'development'.
The Tanzanian Government frequently argues that the area needs to be used as a 'wildlife corridor' for nature conservation. Given their continued support for hunting operations in the same area, this argument appears highly contradictory.
By contrast, the Maasai have herded their cows and co-existed in the area with the wildlife for centuries. Kooya Timan - a Maasai woman from the Purko clan who lives in Olosokwan Village - was interviewed for the film Olosho (above) and described the background to the situation today....
more
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2771261/tanzania_breaks_promise_thousands_of_maasai_evicte d_to_make_way_for_lion_hunt.html
and soon in the west, many will lose their homes, properties or be evicted
looks like the definition of savages will get soon very blurred.
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Tanzania breaks promise - thousands of Maasai evicted to make way for lion hunt
The Ecologist
27th February 2015
The Tanzanian government is illegally carrying out gunpoint evictions of Maasai pastoralists in an area surrounded by the Serengeti, Maasai Mara and Ngorongoro national parks, burning hundreds of homes.
It's all part of a plan to make way for luxury game hunting in the area. Ortello Business Corporation (OBC) - a luxury hunting company based in the United Arab Emirates with close connections to the Dubai Royal Family - occupied a 1,500 square km area of Maasai community land in 1992.
Since then OBC has built a private airport and exclusive hunting retreats - and deployed a range of tactics to prevent indigenous Maasai people from accessing their land: cutting them off from vital grazing land and water points; pushing the community ever closer to collapse.
In 2009, a mass eviction of Maasai villages within the 1,500 square kilometres took place. Over 200 homes were burned, leaving over 3,000 people homeless. According to witnesses, the operation was undertaken by the Tanzanian Field Force Unit with assistance from private security guards representing OBC (see Olosho video, below).....
Three things are inseparable: land, animals and people
There are no alternative pastures for the pastoralist Maasai of Loliondo, who were already once evicted from their ancestral lands in 1959 by the British colonial government to make way for the Serengeti National Park.
Herding is an integral part of Maasai cultural identity and the loss of indigenous traditions cannot be compensated by either cash payments or promises of 'development'.
The Tanzanian Government frequently argues that the area needs to be used as a 'wildlife corridor' for nature conservation. Given their continued support for hunting operations in the same area, this argument appears highly contradictory.
By contrast, the Maasai have herded their cows and co-existed in the area with the wildlife for centuries. Kooya Timan - a Maasai woman from the Purko clan who lives in Olosokwan Village - was interviewed for the film Olosho (above) and described the background to the situation today....
more
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2771261/tanzania_breaks_promise_thousands_of_maasai_evicte d_to_make_way_for_lion_hunt.html