It isn’t conservation, trophy hunting, and tourism that is destroying Maasai livelihoods and culture in northern Tanzania; it is the Maasai landgrab and their brutalization by the Government for the benefit of the Ortello Business Corporation (OBC) of Dubai and Thomson Safaris of the USA. The notional owner of OBC is Mohammed Abdulrahim Al-Ali, lieutenant general and Assistant Under-Secretary of the Dubai Ministry of Defence, its Loliondo hunting concession held on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE, and ruler of Dubai. OBC was set up for big man Maktoum and his friends to hunt. His oil billions and unrestrained power have reduced the Tanzanian government to begging accomplices in the brutalization of resident Maasai clans. Through their local company, Tanzania Conservation Limited, Thomson Safaris has followed a similar path to OBC. Thomson bought land from Tanzania Breweries that had been illegally alienated from the Maasai. In October 2015, the Arusha court agreed with the Maasai that the land had been alienated unlawfully, ‘but no damages were awarded, and the conflict over land and resources remains.’
The Maasai, like the Palestinians, suffer hideous oppression from the colonists. And the psychosis grows.
Sad commentary, but many thanks for all this research.
Whitey see the Moon: figure out ways to exploit it, make building materials out of regolith, etc. Whitey see Africa, empty land, no "important" people, Whitey need forest to offset their pollution, so Whitey take it. Any resource at all that Whitey want, Whitey just take. And take, and take, until nothing worthwhile remains. then the little people are allowed to live there. Little people in way of what Whitey want? See these shoulder decorations? Is there a civilization on this planet, or not? Not, apparently.
It isn’t conservation, trophy hunting, and tourism that is destroying Maasai livelihoods and culture in northern Tanzania; it is the Maasai landgrab and their brutalization by the Government for the benefit of the Ortello Business Corporation (OBC) of Dubai and Thomson Safaris of the USA. The notional owner of OBC is Mohammed Abdulrahim Al-Ali, lieutenant general and Assistant Under-Secretary of the Dubai Ministry of Defence, its Loliondo hunting concession held on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE, and ruler of Dubai. OBC was set up for big man Maktoum and his friends to hunt. His oil billions and unrestrained power have reduced the Tanzanian government to begging accomplices in the brutalization of resident Maasai clans. Through their local company, Tanzania Conservation Limited, Thomson Safaris has followed a similar path to OBC. Thomson bought land from Tanzania Breweries that had been illegally alienated from the Maasai. In October 2015, the Arusha court agreed with the Maasai that the land had been alienated unlawfully, ‘but no damages were awarded, and the conflict over land and resources remains.’
The Maasai, like the Palestinians, suffer hideous oppression from the colonists. And the psychosis grows.
Sad commentary, but many thanks for all this research.
Whitey see the Moon: figure out ways to exploit it, make building materials out of regolith, etc. Whitey see Africa, empty land, no "important" people, Whitey need forest to offset their pollution, so Whitey take it. Any resource at all that Whitey want, Whitey just take. And take, and take, until nothing worthwhile remains. then the little people are allowed to live there. Little people in way of what Whitey want? See these shoulder decorations? Is there a civilization on this planet, or not? Not, apparently.