ILO Office, Dar es Salaam
Press Release
Thursday, 16 June 2011
ILO/11/45
President Kikwete calls for efficient growth in a new era of Social Justice
GENEVA (ILO News)
At the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete called for new approaches to address globalization by promoting an efficient growth path for a new era of Social Justice.
“The recent world economic and financial crisis has posed new challenges in the realization of the decent work agenda and threatens to erode some of lofty gains that the world has made in the past decades. These new challenges demand new approaches”, President Kikwete said in an address to the 100th International Labour Conference.
“Globalization, therefore, demands an objective and transformative leadership that can respond to these challenges by designing and promoting policies that can steer the world economy to a more just, equitable and sustainable development”, President Kikwete told more than 3,000 governments, worker and employer delegates from the ILO’s 183 Member States. “We highly appreciate ILO’s leadership role in this important matter”, emphasized President Kikwete by recalling that “the ILO was among the first international organizations, if not the first, to raise the alarm on the negative trends of globalization”.
In introductory remarks, ILO Director-General Juan Somavia recalled that in 2007 President Kikwete spoke of “the necessity for a fairer globalization in the attainment of our development goals. In a way your words then augured many of the problems we are facing today”.
Mr. Somavia stressed: “You are a key actor – in Africa and the international stage – in this new era of social justice, that must emerge if we want peaceful world.” “By focusing on “New Era of Social Justice”, the 100th Session of ILC (...) put the emphasis on the importance of creating opportunities for decent work (...)”, acknowledged President Kikwete who urged “developing countries to design policies that promote efficient growth patterns that are inclusive, environmentally friendly and sustainable”.
“Achieving social justice and decent work in a globalized era has proven to be a daunting task for many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa”, highlighted Mr. Kikwete. “We also need to address the problem of unemployment which is ever increasing, particularly among the youths in developing countries. It is steadily becoming a serious challenge with undeterminable consequences”, he warned participants of the historic ILC session.
The ILO Director-General praised Tanzania’s commitment “to the promotion of youth employment – an issue of critical importance not only for Africa, (...) but for the world as well –” and to the extension of social protection to the informal economy workers.
“In situations of extreme poverty and high unemployment, the informal sector becomes the saviour”, reaffirmed the newly re-elected President of the United Republic of Tanzania. “This is a challenge to all of us to find a suitable answer” which could enable millions of workers in Africa make a living and lift themselves from poverty under work conditions that are decent, he added. According to national estimates, some 5.4 per cent of the total labour force of 16 million people in Tanzania is currently covered by the social security schemes. The ILO is currently supporting Tanzania’s Decent Work Country Program including the entrepreneurship and skills development components of the Danish Africa Commission Assistance to Tanzania, a “Delivering as One” pilot country.
“We look forward to a future, full of optimism that social justice for all will be realized”, President Jakaya Kikwete said.
For further information, please contact the Director, ILO Office Dar es Salaam, P. O. Box 9212, Tel: 2196700, Fax: 2126627, Email: daressalaam@ilo.org OR ILO Department of Communication, Geneva, at: +4122/799-7912, communication@ilo.org,
Friday, June 17, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
TAMASHA LA JINSIA KUFANYIKA DAR
‘Tamasha la jinsia
kufanyika mwaka huu Dar’
Na Naaser Kigwangallah
MTANDAO wa mashirika watetezi wa haki za binadamu, usawa wa kijinsia na ukombozi wa wanawake nchini Tanzania (FemAct), wakishirikiana na Mtandao wa Jinsia Tanzania (TGNP) wametangaza kuwa Tamasha la Jinsia la Mwaka 2011 litafanyika rasmi kuanzia tarehe 13 hadi 16 Septemba 2011.
Tamasha hilo litakuwa na mada kuu ‘Ardhi, Nguvu Kazi na Maisha Endelevu’ ndani ya mada pana ya Jinsia, Demokrasia na Maisha Endelevu.
Mtandao wa Jinsia Tanzania (TGNP) ni shirika la kiraia na kiuanaharakati, linalotetea mabadiliko ya kijamii kwa mtazamo wa kifeministi, ambayo yanalenga kwenye usawa wa jinsia, ukombozi wa wanawake, haki za kijamii, kufikia na kumiliki rasilimali kwa wanawake, vijana na makundi mengine yaliyoko pembezoni.
Dhana ya TGNP ni kujenga tapo la mabadiliko katika jamii, ambalo litachangia kuwepo kwa jamii yenye mabadiliko, ambayo inatambua na kuthamini masuala ya jinsia, demokrasia, haki za binadamu na haki za kijamii.
Mtandao wa Mashirika Watetezi wa Haki za Binadamu na Usawa wa Jinsia (FemAct) unajumuisha mashirika ya kiraia takribani 40 ambayo yamekuwa yakifanya kazi kupigania haki za kijamii ndani na nje ya Tanzania, tangu mwaka 1996.
Mtandao huu unalenga katika kuendeleza, kupanga mikakati na kutekeleza kwa pamoja ajenda za uanaharakati kwa ajili ya mabadiliko yanayozingatia haki za binadamu, usawa wa jinsia na demokrasia shirikishi, kiuchumi, kijamii, kisera na kiutendaji.
Tamasha la Jinsia 2011, litaandaliwa kwa kutumia mbinu za uraghbishi zilizokita katika katika harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi moja kwa moja.
Kwa kufanya hivi tunatarajia kuongeza umiliki ba ubunifu wa washiriki kwenye uendeshaji wa jukwaa la Tamasha.
Mada kuu, za jopo na za warsha zimetokana na ushiriki wa wadau pamoja na wanaharakati mbali mbali kuanzia ngazi ya jamii mpaka bara la Afrika na zaidi.
Tamasha la Jinsia kwa maana hiyo itakuwa jukwaa la wazi la kubadilishana uzoefu, kutoka ngazi zote, kuhusu mapambano ya ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi.
Mada ya mwaka 2011 – ‘Ardhi, Nguvu Kazi na Maisha Endelevu’ inajengea kwenye mada zilizoongoza Tamasha za awali, na wakati huo huo inajengea kwenye kampeni kubwa ya ‘Haki ya Uchumi: Rasilimali ziwanufaishe wanawake walioko pembezoni.’
Tamasha la mwaka huu linalenga kuibua zaidi mapambano ya wanaharakati wanajamii wanawake, vikundi vyao na mitandao, kwenye masuala ya Archi, Nguvu Kazi na Maisha Endelevu ndani ya muktadha wa mfumo dume, sera za kibeberu na mifumo ya utandawazi.
Harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi iko mstari wa
mbele kwenye mapambano haya, kwa sababu ni wanawake walioko pembezoni ambao wananyonywa na kukandamizwa zaidi kwenye muktadtha huu.
Malengo ya tamasha la mwaka huu ni kuibua, kubadilishana, na kuanzisha fikra, uchambuzi na kutengeneza mikakati ya pamoja ya kudai rasilimali ziwanufaishe wanawake walioko pembezoni, kusherekea nguvu za wanawake kwa pamoja, kupanua na kuimarisha ushirikiano katika tapo la ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi na haki ya uchumi katika ngazi na sekta zote za kijamii.
Malengo mengine ni kuimarisha, kujinoa na kuongeza uwezo wa kuchambua, kutafiti na kutathmini masuala yahusuyo haki za binadamu na za kijamii, usawa wa kijinsia na harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake na wanyonge wengine kote duniani.
Kuandika nyaraka na kusambaza maarifa kuhusu harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake duniani na kuchangia kwenye mjadala wa mada kuu ya Tamasha la Jinsia 2011.
Wanaharakati katika ngazi ya jamii, vikundi vya wanawake na wanaharakati wa haki za binadamu, demokrasia na ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi, taasisi za kiraia na mitandao wanahamasishwa kutumia fursa ya tamasha la jinsia kuandaa mada na mawasilisho mbalimbali kwa kutumia sanaa, nyimbo, mashairi, mijadala, visa mikasa na maigizo kwenye warsha au jopo kuu.
Watumie fursa hiyo pia kufanya maonesho ya vitabu, picha, kazi za mikono kwa kuzingatia mada za Tamasha la Jinsia 2011.
TGNP na FemAct wanahimiza pia utumiaji wa uwasilishaji kwa njia ya sanaa.
Ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi unahusu mapambano dhidi ya mfumo dume, ubeberu na ubepari na jitihada za wanawake na wasichana za kutengeneza mahusiano mbadala ya kijinsia ambapo wanawake na wanaume wataweza kutimiza ndoto zao na kufikia vilele vya uwezo wao.
Ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi unaunganisha mapambano ya wanawake na wanaume dhidi ya aina zote za ubaguzi, unyonyaji, na ukandamizaji, ikiwemo ubaguzi wa rangi, kijinsia, kitabaka, kikabila na
Kiutamaduni.
Pia kupambana na ubaguzi wowote unaotokana na hali ya kuishi na VVU, umri, kuishi na ulemavu, ujinsia n.k.
Ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi unaamini kwamba mabadiliko yanawezekana, na hii amani inawapa moyo kwa kuwatoa katika hali ya kukata tamaa.
Msimamo huu unasisitiza umuhimu wa nadharia na vitendo, uchambuzi na matendo.
Wakombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi wanasisitiza umuhimu wa kutafakari kwenye uzoefu katika ngazi binafsi, pamoja na kwenye mapambano katika ngazi ya umma na umuhimu wa utafiti na uchambuzi wa kina kuhusu mifumo na mapambano.
Wanaharakati wa ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi wanatumia mbinu shirikishi katika michakato yote ya harakati katika kupinga ushindani wa kupindukia unaoongoza mfumo wa kibepari.
Njia mbadala za kujenga nguvu za pamoja, kuzalisha maarifa na mawasiliano zimejengwa ili kusaidiana na kulea kizazi za kuendeleza harakati hizi katika nadharia na vitendo.
Jopo la wazi litafanyika kila siku asubuhi kutoa muktadha utakao endesha mijadala ya siku hiyo.
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kigwa_n@yahoo.com
0713 630 190/0784 630 195
kufanyika mwaka huu Dar’
Na Naaser Kigwangallah
MTANDAO wa mashirika watetezi wa haki za binadamu, usawa wa kijinsia na ukombozi wa wanawake nchini Tanzania (FemAct), wakishirikiana na Mtandao wa Jinsia Tanzania (TGNP) wametangaza kuwa Tamasha la Jinsia la Mwaka 2011 litafanyika rasmi kuanzia tarehe 13 hadi 16 Septemba 2011.
Tamasha hilo litakuwa na mada kuu ‘Ardhi, Nguvu Kazi na Maisha Endelevu’ ndani ya mada pana ya Jinsia, Demokrasia na Maisha Endelevu.
Mtandao wa Jinsia Tanzania (TGNP) ni shirika la kiraia na kiuanaharakati, linalotetea mabadiliko ya kijamii kwa mtazamo wa kifeministi, ambayo yanalenga kwenye usawa wa jinsia, ukombozi wa wanawake, haki za kijamii, kufikia na kumiliki rasilimali kwa wanawake, vijana na makundi mengine yaliyoko pembezoni.
Dhana ya TGNP ni kujenga tapo la mabadiliko katika jamii, ambalo litachangia kuwepo kwa jamii yenye mabadiliko, ambayo inatambua na kuthamini masuala ya jinsia, demokrasia, haki za binadamu na haki za kijamii.
Mtandao wa Mashirika Watetezi wa Haki za Binadamu na Usawa wa Jinsia (FemAct) unajumuisha mashirika ya kiraia takribani 40 ambayo yamekuwa yakifanya kazi kupigania haki za kijamii ndani na nje ya Tanzania, tangu mwaka 1996.
Mtandao huu unalenga katika kuendeleza, kupanga mikakati na kutekeleza kwa pamoja ajenda za uanaharakati kwa ajili ya mabadiliko yanayozingatia haki za binadamu, usawa wa jinsia na demokrasia shirikishi, kiuchumi, kijamii, kisera na kiutendaji.
Tamasha la Jinsia 2011, litaandaliwa kwa kutumia mbinu za uraghbishi zilizokita katika katika harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi moja kwa moja.
Kwa kufanya hivi tunatarajia kuongeza umiliki ba ubunifu wa washiriki kwenye uendeshaji wa jukwaa la Tamasha.
Mada kuu, za jopo na za warsha zimetokana na ushiriki wa wadau pamoja na wanaharakati mbali mbali kuanzia ngazi ya jamii mpaka bara la Afrika na zaidi.
Tamasha la Jinsia kwa maana hiyo itakuwa jukwaa la wazi la kubadilishana uzoefu, kutoka ngazi zote, kuhusu mapambano ya ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi.
Mada ya mwaka 2011 – ‘Ardhi, Nguvu Kazi na Maisha Endelevu’ inajengea kwenye mada zilizoongoza Tamasha za awali, na wakati huo huo inajengea kwenye kampeni kubwa ya ‘Haki ya Uchumi: Rasilimali ziwanufaishe wanawake walioko pembezoni.’
Tamasha la mwaka huu linalenga kuibua zaidi mapambano ya wanaharakati wanajamii wanawake, vikundi vyao na mitandao, kwenye masuala ya Archi, Nguvu Kazi na Maisha Endelevu ndani ya muktadha wa mfumo dume, sera za kibeberu na mifumo ya utandawazi.
Harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi iko mstari wa
mbele kwenye mapambano haya, kwa sababu ni wanawake walioko pembezoni ambao wananyonywa na kukandamizwa zaidi kwenye muktadtha huu.
Malengo ya tamasha la mwaka huu ni kuibua, kubadilishana, na kuanzisha fikra, uchambuzi na kutengeneza mikakati ya pamoja ya kudai rasilimali ziwanufaishe wanawake walioko pembezoni, kusherekea nguvu za wanawake kwa pamoja, kupanua na kuimarisha ushirikiano katika tapo la ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi na haki ya uchumi katika ngazi na sekta zote za kijamii.
Malengo mengine ni kuimarisha, kujinoa na kuongeza uwezo wa kuchambua, kutafiti na kutathmini masuala yahusuyo haki za binadamu na za kijamii, usawa wa kijinsia na harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake na wanyonge wengine kote duniani.
Kuandika nyaraka na kusambaza maarifa kuhusu harakati za ukombozi wa wanawake duniani na kuchangia kwenye mjadala wa mada kuu ya Tamasha la Jinsia 2011.
Wanaharakati katika ngazi ya jamii, vikundi vya wanawake na wanaharakati wa haki za binadamu, demokrasia na ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi, taasisi za kiraia na mitandao wanahamasishwa kutumia fursa ya tamasha la jinsia kuandaa mada na mawasilisho mbalimbali kwa kutumia sanaa, nyimbo, mashairi, mijadala, visa mikasa na maigizo kwenye warsha au jopo kuu.
Watumie fursa hiyo pia kufanya maonesho ya vitabu, picha, kazi za mikono kwa kuzingatia mada za Tamasha la Jinsia 2011.
TGNP na FemAct wanahimiza pia utumiaji wa uwasilishaji kwa njia ya sanaa.
Ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi unahusu mapambano dhidi ya mfumo dume, ubeberu na ubepari na jitihada za wanawake na wasichana za kutengeneza mahusiano mbadala ya kijinsia ambapo wanawake na wanaume wataweza kutimiza ndoto zao na kufikia vilele vya uwezo wao.
Ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi unaunganisha mapambano ya wanawake na wanaume dhidi ya aina zote za ubaguzi, unyonyaji, na ukandamizaji, ikiwemo ubaguzi wa rangi, kijinsia, kitabaka, kikabila na
Kiutamaduni.
Pia kupambana na ubaguzi wowote unaotokana na hali ya kuishi na VVU, umri, kuishi na ulemavu, ujinsia n.k.
Ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi unaamini kwamba mabadiliko yanawezekana, na hii amani inawapa moyo kwa kuwatoa katika hali ya kukata tamaa.
Msimamo huu unasisitiza umuhimu wa nadharia na vitendo, uchambuzi na matendo.
Wakombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi wanasisitiza umuhimu wa kutafakari kwenye uzoefu katika ngazi binafsi, pamoja na kwenye mapambano katika ngazi ya umma na umuhimu wa utafiti na uchambuzi wa kina kuhusu mifumo na mapambano.
Wanaharakati wa ukombozi wa wanawake kimapinduzi wanatumia mbinu shirikishi katika michakato yote ya harakati katika kupinga ushindani wa kupindukia unaoongoza mfumo wa kibepari.
Njia mbadala za kujenga nguvu za pamoja, kuzalisha maarifa na mawasiliano zimejengwa ili kusaidiana na kulea kizazi za kuendeleza harakati hizi katika nadharia na vitendo.
Jopo la wazi litafanyika kila siku asubuhi kutoa muktadha utakao endesha mijadala ya siku hiyo.
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kigwa_n@yahoo.com
0713 630 190/0784 630 195
Thursday, June 2, 2011
FOREIGN JOURNALIST ARRESTED
‘Engaging in journalism activities without permission’
Published On Sat May 28 2011
Jocelyn Edwards Special to the Star
KAMPALA, UGANDA—Given that I had been followed around the tiny town for two days by men in ’80s-style wraparound sunglasses, it wasn’t really a surprise to me when I finally got arrested last Thursday in northern Tanzania.
I had gone to the East African nation to investigate the deaths of five villagers gunned down at a mine in North Mara belonging to African Barrick, a subsidiary of Toronto-based mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. Barrick said the men killed by security forces — initial reports had pegged the death toll at seven — were “intruders.” Family members of the victims said the gold-laced stones the men routinely collected at the mine were their only means of survival.
Trucks of police in full riot gear patrolled the streets of Tarime, the town nearest the mine. The situation was tense and relatives of the deceased were huddled together in a compound.
Tuesday morning, I woke up and found the room next to mine empty. The environmental and human rights lawyer who had been staying there had been arrested, along with seven other people who had been guarding the bodies of the victims at the town mortuary.
Witnesses said they saw police load the coffins of four of the victims onto a truck Monday night. They were found the next morning dumped on the roadside next to the deceased’s respective homes.
But there wasn’t really anything I could do to get rid of the spies; as a small white woman in a Tanzanian town of only a couple of thousand, I didn’t really have hope of losing them in a crowd.
So the security men sat across from me at lunch, followed me back to my hotel after interviews and perched on stools in the bar watching me come and go. But they maintained their distance, so I hoped that watching was all they were going to do.
Then Thursday at 9 a.m., I went to the office of the district commissioner of Tarime. I wanted to ask him if it was true that, as family members of the deceased had told me, he said it was unfortunate that police had killed only five people that night at the mine.
Upon my arrival, however, the commissioner shook my hand and led me to an office with several police officers. One of them told me that I was suspected of having pictures on my camera dangerous to the “security and stability” of the country. In fact, I only had a few photos of the family members of the victims.
I was then taken to the immigration office, where three immigration officers and a police detective questioned me. I was told I was being detained for working in Tanzania without a work permit, but their questions made it clear their real interest was in more than my immigration status.
They asked me why a foreigner like me would be interested in the deaths at the North Mara mine, how I had come to learn about the killings and what I had concluded about them.
As the officers spoke in Swahili, I worried that the episode would end with a night in a Tanzanian jail.
But after being detained for eight hours, I was formally charged with “engaging in journalism activities without permission” and given bail.
Though I had agreed to plead guilty to the charges, I was driven to my hotel and my room was searched.
The detective solved the problem of the lack of a warrant by grabbing a piece of paper from the manager’s office and writing up a “temporary emergency searching order” on the spot. Police and immigration officials confiscated my laptop and notebooks. My phone, camera and passport were also kept overnight.
The next day, I went to the local court and paid a small fine. Even though there were no outstanding charges against me, police officers kept my property for several hours, asking me for my computer password so they could search it.
Finally, at about 4 p.m. on Friday, three immigration officers drove me to the Kenyan border and deported me.
But mine was a relatively minor ordeal compared with how some others were treated in the wake of these killings.
Tanzanian member of parliament Tundu Lissu was among the eight people arrested Monday while guarding the bodies of the victims at the mortuary. They were arrested, beaten and put in the back of a truck.
“We were piled on top of each other and they stomped on us with their boots,” he said.
African Barrick says the conduct of the Tanzanian police in the aftermath of the shootings is not related to any services the force provides the company.
“This is a police matter and concerns how the Tanzanian police interact with the community. African Barrick Gold does not have any control or influence over police in this respect,” the company said in an email.
But local leaders accuse the company of complicity in the conduct of the police, because it employs officers to provide mine security, and allege that African Barrick is benefiting from it.
Lissu said: “A community that has been intimidated is a community that can’t demand its rights from the company.”
Published On Sat May 28 2011
Jocelyn Edwards Special to the Star
KAMPALA, UGANDA—Given that I had been followed around the tiny town for two days by men in ’80s-style wraparound sunglasses, it wasn’t really a surprise to me when I finally got arrested last Thursday in northern Tanzania.
I had gone to the East African nation to investigate the deaths of five villagers gunned down at a mine in North Mara belonging to African Barrick, a subsidiary of Toronto-based mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. Barrick said the men killed by security forces — initial reports had pegged the death toll at seven — were “intruders.” Family members of the victims said the gold-laced stones the men routinely collected at the mine were their only means of survival.
Trucks of police in full riot gear patrolled the streets of Tarime, the town nearest the mine. The situation was tense and relatives of the deceased were huddled together in a compound.
Tuesday morning, I woke up and found the room next to mine empty. The environmental and human rights lawyer who had been staying there had been arrested, along with seven other people who had been guarding the bodies of the victims at the town mortuary.
Witnesses said they saw police load the coffins of four of the victims onto a truck Monday night. They were found the next morning dumped on the roadside next to the deceased’s respective homes.
But there wasn’t really anything I could do to get rid of the spies; as a small white woman in a Tanzanian town of only a couple of thousand, I didn’t really have hope of losing them in a crowd.
So the security men sat across from me at lunch, followed me back to my hotel after interviews and perched on stools in the bar watching me come and go. But they maintained their distance, so I hoped that watching was all they were going to do.
Then Thursday at 9 a.m., I went to the office of the district commissioner of Tarime. I wanted to ask him if it was true that, as family members of the deceased had told me, he said it was unfortunate that police had killed only five people that night at the mine.
Upon my arrival, however, the commissioner shook my hand and led me to an office with several police officers. One of them told me that I was suspected of having pictures on my camera dangerous to the “security and stability” of the country. In fact, I only had a few photos of the family members of the victims.
I was then taken to the immigration office, where three immigration officers and a police detective questioned me. I was told I was being detained for working in Tanzania without a work permit, but their questions made it clear their real interest was in more than my immigration status.
They asked me why a foreigner like me would be interested in the deaths at the North Mara mine, how I had come to learn about the killings and what I had concluded about them.
As the officers spoke in Swahili, I worried that the episode would end with a night in a Tanzanian jail.
But after being detained for eight hours, I was formally charged with “engaging in journalism activities without permission” and given bail.
Though I had agreed to plead guilty to the charges, I was driven to my hotel and my room was searched.
The detective solved the problem of the lack of a warrant by grabbing a piece of paper from the manager’s office and writing up a “temporary emergency searching order” on the spot. Police and immigration officials confiscated my laptop and notebooks. My phone, camera and passport were also kept overnight.
The next day, I went to the local court and paid a small fine. Even though there were no outstanding charges against me, police officers kept my property for several hours, asking me for my computer password so they could search it.
Finally, at about 4 p.m. on Friday, three immigration officers drove me to the Kenyan border and deported me.
But mine was a relatively minor ordeal compared with how some others were treated in the wake of these killings.
Tanzanian member of parliament Tundu Lissu was among the eight people arrested Monday while guarding the bodies of the victims at the mortuary. They were arrested, beaten and put in the back of a truck.
“We were piled on top of each other and they stomped on us with their boots,” he said.
African Barrick says the conduct of the Tanzanian police in the aftermath of the shootings is not related to any services the force provides the company.
“This is a police matter and concerns how the Tanzanian police interact with the community. African Barrick Gold does not have any control or influence over police in this respect,” the company said in an email.
But local leaders accuse the company of complicity in the conduct of the police, because it employs officers to provide mine security, and allege that African Barrick is benefiting from it.
Lissu said: “A community that has been intimidated is a community that can’t demand its rights from the company.”
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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