On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Mobhare Matinyi <matinyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
--They're kicking them off their land-maasai
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:23:03 -0700
From: femapobahi@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Mabadiliko] FW: They're kicking them off their land-maasai
To: mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com
Dear Daud,I got this info from my colleagues in Australia; it is a continuation of sad stories about Tanzania!Mathias
From: Daud Rwebangila <drwebangila@gmail.com>
To: "Mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com" <Mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:47 PM
Subject: [Mabadiliko] FW: They're kicking them off their land-maasai
Dear friends,
At any moment, a big-game hunting corporation could sign a deal which would
force up to 48,000 members of Africa's famous Maasai tribe from th
eir land to make way for wealthy Middle Eastern kings and princes to hunt l
ions and leopards. Experts say the Tanzanian President's approval of the de
al may be imminent, but if we act now, we can stop this sell-off of the Ser
engeti.
The last time this same corporation pushed the Maasai off their land to mak
e way for rich hunters, people were beaten by the police, their homes were
burnt to a cinder and their livestock died of starvation. But when a press
controversy followed, Tanzanian President Kikwete reversed course and retur
ned the Maasai to their land. This time, there hasn't been a big press cont
roversy yet, but we can change that and force Kikwete to stop the deal if w
e join our voices now.
If 150,000 of us sign, media outlets in Tanzania and around the world will
be blitzed so President Kikwete gets the message to rethink this deadly dea
l. Sign the petition now and send to everyone:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_maasai_a/?bXOjtbb&v=17057
The Maasai are semi-nomadic herders who have lived in Tanzania and Kenya fo
r centuries, playing a critical role in preserving the delicate ecosystem.
But to royal families from the United Arab Emirates, they're an obstacle to
luxurious animal shooting sprees. A deal to evict the Maasai to make way f
or rich foreign hunters is as bad for wildlife as it is for the communities
it would destroy. While President Kikwete is talking to favoured local eli
tes to sell them on the deal as good for development, the vast majority of
people just want to keep the land that they know the President can take by
decree.
President Kikwete knows that this deal would be controversial with Tanzania
's tourists -- a critical source of national income -- and is therefore try
ing to keep it from the public eye. In 2009, a similar royal landgrab in th
e area executed by the same corporation that is swooping in this time gener
ated global media coverage that helped to roll it back. If we can generate
the same level of attention, we know the pressure can work.
A petition signed by thousands can force all the major global media bureaus
in East Africa and Tanzania to blow up this controversial deal. Sign now t
o call on Kikwete to kill the deal:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_maasai_a/?bXOjtbb&v=17057
Representatives from the Maasai community today urgently appealed to Avaaz
to raise the global alarm call and save their land. Time and again, the inc
redible response from this amazing community turns seemingly lost causes in
to legacies that last a lifetime. Lets protect the Maasai and save the anim
als for tourists that want to shoot them with camera lenses, rather than le
thal weapons!
With hope and determination,
Sam, Meredith, Luis, Aldine, Diego, Ricken and the rest of the Avaaz team
For More Information:
The Guardian: "Tourism is a curse to us"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/masai-tribesman-tanzania-touris
m
News Internationalist Magazine: "Hunted down"
http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2009/12/01/tanzania/
Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maa
sai
http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session12/TZ/STP-SocietyThreate
nedPeople-eng.pdf
FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loli
ondo
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/58956/print
Voices of Loliondo: Short film from Loliondo on impact of eviction on Maasa
i
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