Indigenous Affairs 1-2/09: Editoral - REDD and Indigenous people

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional

Tags: Climate

Mr Masambe Nguya was standing outside his burning homestead when he was spotted by a police officer who poured petrol over him and pushed him towards the flames. Luckily, he stumbled and fell and managed to flee whereby he survived….

In early July, more than 200 Maasai homes were burnt down and 3,000 people from eight villages in Loliondo, Ngorongoro District in Tanzania, left homeless. Food stores and maize fields were burnt, exacerbating an already alarming hunger situation, and 50,000 cattle were pushed into areas hit by extreme drought, with no water and grass. The evictions of the Maasai pastoralists from their homes were extremely violent, with several women being raped by policemen, and family units breaking up, with the result that some children were lost in the bush during the chaos and panic.

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