The reported use of live ammunition by security forces in Tanzania, against ethnic Maasai herders, and the death of a police officer, have been condemned by top UN-appointed independent rights experts.
The reported use of live ammunition by security forces in Tanzania, against ethnic Maasai herders, and the death of a police officer, have been condemned by
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Saturday, 13 March 2021, 5:34 pm
The International Indigenous People’s Movement for
Self-Determination and Liberation (International IPMSDL)
unites with the Maasai Indigenous Peoples of Kenya and their
allies and advocates in condemning the recent and
longstanding attacks on the Maasai people’s right to their
ancestral lands in Kitet community.
We condemn Kedong
Ranch Limited, among whose stakeholders are relatives of
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, for carrying out these
attacks and we are calling on the Kenyan High Court and
Kenyan government to take the side of the Maasai against the
corporation.
Kedong Ranch Limited has acquired lease
to 75,000 acres of Maasai land since the 1970s without the