#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #TANZANIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en)#Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - #Tanzania: #Maasai uprising against their expulsion from the #Ngorongoro #reserve (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Read on the site Brains not available: Located in northern Tanzania, the

Ngorongoro Park Nature Reserve covers 8288 square kilometers. Sparsely populated,
its population is mainly Maasai, living between northern Tanzania and
southwestern Kenya. Estimated at around 8,000 inhabitants in the 1950s, the
number of inhabitants living in this area would be made up of more than 100,000
people today. ---- According to the magazine Géo, the quantity of head of cattle
would have increased from around 260,000 in 2017 to more than a million today,
mainly cattle. ---- Until now, successive governments in Tanzania have always
allowed indigenous people to stay on their lands, (yes reading that sentence is
outrageous).

Due to global warming, the dry season is now longer.

Those who live in this reserve sometimes find themselves in competition with
wildlife in search of water. Cohabitation with wild animals had so far always
been optimal.

It would now be less rare to see accidents there: attacks on livestock and
sometimes even on humans.

It is on this strange pretext, refuted by the Maasai population, that the
Tanzanian government, led by President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Prime Minister
Kassim Majaliwa, relies to enforce "a conservation plan." The sound of bells
carried by cows is accused of scaring away wild animals and harming tourism, a
sector which represents 18% of Tanzania's GDP. In addition to displacing
populations, the state is proposing the establishment of a beacon system that
would separate wild animals from humans. Except that the real reason seems to be
quite different.

According to Mr Mondialisation: "Otterlo Business Company (OBC), based in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) which organizes hunting trips for the royal family of
its country and their guests should obtain control of commercial hunting in the
region." Germany would also be engaged in this process in the name of ecology.
"The Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt (Frankfurt Zoological Society) funds
rangers and conservation officers, some of whom the Maasai say were involved in
the recent evictions." Fiore Longo (Survival France) warns "Conservationists
working in Tanzania, such as the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), based in
Germany, advocate a racist and colonial model of conservation which is that of
fortress conservation. The FZS sees the local people and their livestock as one
of the main threats to the survival of the ecosystem, thus promoting the myth of
a "wilderness" without people, which has since the beginning served as the
underlying philosophy of the Maasai evictions.»

The Tanzanian state is therefore accused of wanting to transform natural parks
into areas reserved solely for tourist use for safaris and even intended for
trophy hunting. Caricatural heir to colonial domination, this practice is thus
very far from environmental claims.

Compensation would be offered to those who accept a trip 370 kilometers further.

At stake: promises of better living conditions, schools and hospitals nearby, or
even access to electricity. Problem: in addition to forcing this movement, in the
past, the displaced have only rarely received compensation, sometimes finding
themselves in misery.

The majority of natives seem to remain suspicious and hostile to this decision to
exile, and are determined to face it. Especially since the precedents are not in
his interests. In 2018, after three years of investigation, a report published by
Anuradha Mittal for the Oakland Institute, testifies to numerous repressive acts
by the Tanzanian army against the Maasai: after the forced displacements, 20,000
people would be found homeless without property and cattle. "The tourist
companies want a pristine savannah, the kind of image you see in National
Geographic or on television, the savannah with the lions, the wild beasts... They
don't want to see human beings. They deny the existence of this population, which
has nevertheless lived on this land forever. ". (...) ""The army claims that it
protects the Serengeti National Park, but the villagers were beaten on the
territory of their village, and not in the park. It is a real climate of
repression, they are told "how dare you go to the Regional Court of Justice? "".
(Oakland Institute)

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/06/tanzanie-soulevement-massai-contre-leur.html
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