BLACKOUT IN TANZANIA: VICTIMS SILENCED AS GOVT SEALS OFF ELECTION VIOLENCE PROBE
The Tanzanian government has just declared WAR on the truth. A presidential commission investigating the bloody aftermath of last October’s elections has BARRED the media from covering victim testimonies. This isn’t protection—it’s a COVER-UP in broad daylight.
The public is now locked out, forced to watch from the sidelines as a state-controlled “investigation” unfolds behind closed doors. The people who saw their sons shot and their homes destroyed? Their horrifying stories are being HIDDEN from you.
Commission chair Ibrahim Juma claims this is about “protecting privacy.” But media analyst Kajubi Mkajanga, speaking to DW, BLASTED the move. “These incidents occurred PUBLICLY,” he stated. Critics see this for what it is: a blanket ban meant to suffocate transparency and keep the world from seeing the evidence.
A senior editor at a major national paper warned this destroys public trust. “A total ban creates suspicion,” they said. These journalists are professionals bound by ethics; they know how to protect a source. The government’s radical shutdown reeks of guilt.
Behind those sealed doors, the stories are explosive. Families are testifying about deaths from GUNSHOT WOUNDS, beatings, and properties destroyed by security forces linked to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government. One mother described her son being shot coming home from work—an execution in plain sight.
Now, only the government’s sanitized final report will see the light of day.
While human rights groups count HUNDREDS dead and injured, the state is burying the evidence. It’s the ultimate betrayal: a commission meant to uncover the truth is being used to bury it. This is how a nation’s memory is erased.
They think you don’t deserve to know how your neighbors died.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
