Maasai evicted and imprisoned to make way for safari hunting concession
On 4 July, heavily armed Tanzanian riot police set fire to Maasai homesteads and foodstores to evict them from their ancestral land. Thousands of Maasai are now destitute with their cattle in acute drought conditions. They were forced from their villages to create a game hunting area for the Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC).
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The Massai are a great tribe in Africa. I remeber seeing them on the National Geographic. This is sad for me but it sounds like other countrys.i hope there wasn't any killing of the tribes.
Pure greed!
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- maof4brats
- 3 months ago
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That is appaling! The Massai are a proud people, what was done to them is extremely insulting as well as outrageous. This is not unlike the eviction of the Bushmen from their ancestral lands in the Kalahari desert of Botswana. (click on the link above)
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- Vierotchka
- 3 months ago
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Last year I went to Kenya where we had a Massai as our guide. They are a very interesting and cool people, so this concerns me.
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- ProjectBat
- 3 months ago
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they are gorgeous people to. there bodies are very lean and I am not saying that like a racist. I think they look majestic.And how dare they just burn the houses down.
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- maof4brats
- 3 months ago
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soon the government will sell the land to Dole to grow bananas like it happens all over the south pacific...
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holy shit!!!!
that cannot be legal!
