Content Note: The content discussed below, and/or some of the web pages we link to, contain text and images documenting physical violence against Maasai people.
Content Note: The content discussed below, and/or some of the web pages we link to, contain text and images documenting physical violence against Maasai people.
Content Note: The content discussed below, and/or some of the web pages we link to, contain text and images documenting physical violence against Maasai people.
By Katya Yegorov-Crate (CS Intern)
Reports from the Maasai community of Loliondo in Ngorongoro District, Tanzania, indicate that people are being forcefully evicted from their ancestral lands and territories, starting on 10 June 2022. The ICCA Consortium strongly condemns this inexcusable violence against the Indigenous Maasai.
URGENT ADVISORY FROM A GROWING CULTURE
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February 1, 2022 Press Release from Peasant and Indigenous Press Forum
By Madeline McGill
Violence between the Tanzanian government and the Maasai people of Loliondo has continued to mount in the face of their eviction from ancestral lands on the Western Serengeti.
Since February 12, 2015, Tanzanian government forces have begun forcibly evicting Maasai from their homes, burning houses to the ground, injuring civilians, and leaving women and children without shelter or protection.
After months of government threats, eviction became a reality yesterday for the Maasai of Loliondo, Tanzania, in the Western Serengeti. According to reports from a Maasai source in Tanzania, Tanzanian government forces have entered villages and Maasai homes have been burned. The evictions reportedly started on Thursday, February 12 and continued through today.
"Photo by Greg Westfall"