Stupid woman. Ndio amepelekwa ICC.
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Ever since the clash with Idi Amin in 1979, I think this was the first time the Tanzanian security system was tested! Without a history of protests and possibly not expecting widespread protests, they lacked the tools for using āminimumā force like rubber bullets and the water cannon trucks and even just basic negotiation with the protestors.
Because of the widespread nature of the protests, Mama Amin must have panicked and ordered the security to open fire, thinking that maybe only 10 or 20 protestors would be dispatched to Sayuni! Lo an behold the numbers were much higher!
The cops must have been terror-stricken at the sheer number protestors spread country wide. Tanganyika being almost twice the size of Kenya, and having the ruling party CCM as part of the government security apparatus, orders must have been flying left right and centre to ensure Mama and her lieutenants gets a landslide wins (generally to get Ministerial or Assistant Minister one has to be MP first).
The internet blockade must also have worked against the very security system, limiting communication channels to radio, landlines, fax, word of mouth and other 19th century communication methods like smoke signals, literally!
The younger cops must also have been petrified or trigger happy - after watching too many movies and other violent games like mortal combat and got a chance to practice or just used unnecessary force on already retreating protestors.
In a bid not to be like āviumbe jiraniā, Samia came out worse than us. But she has now crossed the rubicon, TZ will never be the same gain. The blood she shed will haunt her and hound her out of office!
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The other day, @255 posted images showing what I assume was the TPDF jumping around in PE kit, which was the first indication that these people were soft targets for a coup like attempt. And then a few months later, gen z nearly overruns government forces. He has since stopped posting wierd tourism promo ads and is using an interesting profile picture.
An interesting time to be alive.
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like a RRRATTT!
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huyo msenge @255 alituambia wamemaliza vijana majirani maelfu, tufike mortuary tuhakikishe
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She will learn that life isnāt a straght line
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Haya mimi nashuku that 3,000 number. For casualties to be that high they must have been using grenades.
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Hehehehehe, boss! This isnāt the first time tz is killing its own. It is the numbers that are disturbing this time round. Iāve said it here before: 2020 Magufuli killed kids. KIDS, in the 10s in numbers. The bodies were piled in some field, just like you saw the ones youāve seen in front of mortuaries.
Before 2020, the killings used to happen mostly in Zanzibar (2000 and 2005; nearly happened in 2015 too but didnāt). In 2010, areas where the late Lowassa was a kingpin like Arusha had a fair share of deaths (it was said that a Kenyan from Kisii lost his life in riots back then).
The govt there knows how to hide these things so much things that happen in Moshi may never be known in Arusha, approx. 80 or so kms away, unless someone who saw it with their own eyes tells it to someone else. Of which whomever else is told will never easily tell any other person because it may land them in serious trouble.
Tanzanians have a very strong connection of what we call nyumba kumi here, so much they can trace where a rumor originates from. So they tend to keep stuff to themselves and will seldom tell foreigners such things because they do not want to āharibia nchi sifaā.
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Thereās a site documenting. Already filled with over 600 names of victims. Vast majority dead. Some missing (likely dead) or injured.
For a country slow on the internet, Iād say itās probably at least 1000
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600 is a 1/5th of 3,000. It could even be 60.
Yes. Thatās why I say TZ is run more like an autocracy than a democracy. And that also explains this:
Meanwhile, the US Navy thinks of East Africa as a safari destination. Despite Somalia having the longest coastline in the world.. and Djibouti being the main entrance into the Suez Canal.
They need a President like Eisenhower soon, these surveillance experts. All talk, no action.
That fleet passed by Mombasa as well.
Yes. But Mombasa is basically the Rotterdam of Africa so letās leave it out.
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Even 1 death/killing is too much. Human life is sacred.
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This is correct. But states (means of administration for Edenās refugees) have limits on the application of sacredness. Actions that bring about disorder (looting, protests, property destruction) can be considered agents of chaos, and thus require FORCE to re-establish equilibrium. Even in the desert, the Israelites had to observe the ten commandments according to how they lived. Nothing in the world is set is stone, otherwise the ābadā angels (Death) would have no job.