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Responding to the decision by Tanzania\u2019s Director of Public Prosecution to drop charges of murder and conspiracy to murder against 24 members of the Maasai, including 10 leaders, Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International\u2019s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cDropping these charges against members of the Maasai people is unequivocally the right decision. They shouldn’t have been arrested in any way. Their only \u2018crime\u2019 was exercising their right to protest while security forces tried to seize land from them in the name of \u2018conservation\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir only \u2018crime\u2019 was exercising their right to protest while security forces tried to seize land from them in the name of \u2018conservation\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muleya Muleya Mawananyanda, Director East and Southern Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tanzanian authorities must immediately stop their ongoing security operations in Loliondo and ensure that any traditional pastoral lands they have seized are returned to the Indigenous Maasai.<\/p>\n

Tanzania must immediately stop restricting freedom of assembly. The government should instead take steps to protect the right to protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tanzanian authorities must ensure that any traditional pastoral lands they have seized are returned to the Indigenous Maasai\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muleya Mwananyanda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the 7th of June 2022, Tanzanian security force and Ngorongoro Conservation Area authorities arrived in Loliondo to begin evicting Maasai members. They did not provide adequate notice, compensation, or an opportunity for genuine consultation to obtain their consent. They took 1,500 kilometres (or more) of ancestral land owned by more than 70,000 Maasai.<\/p>\n

On 9 June 2022, members of the Maasai from Ololosokwan, Oloirien, Kirtalo and Arash \u2014 four villages in Loliondo that border the Serengeti National Park \u2014 gathered to protest against the demarcation exercise by removing markers placed by security forces to outline the boundaries of the land claimed by the Maasai.<\/p>\n

On 9 June, police arrested 10 Maasai leaders from Loliondo \u2014 a day before the policeman they were accused of murdering was actually killed \u2014 and 14 other members of the Maasai, and three others. They were held for approximately 11 days before being released and denied access to their families and lawyers.<\/p>\n

On 10 June, security forces used firearms and tear gas against protesters in an incident that saw a policeman, Garlus Mwita, killed by an arrow, while 84-year-old Maasai community member Orias Oleng\u2019iyo was disappeared. At least 32 Maasai were also wounded by gunshots.<\/p>\n

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