Showing posts with label Mauaji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mauaji. Show all posts

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Murder in Mozambique

 By TOM BOWKER

Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -  Amnesty International has accused Mozambique's government forces of torturing suspected members of an Islamist insurgency in the country's northern Cabo Delgado province, as well as "possible extrajudicial executions" and "discarding of a large number of corpses into apparent mass graves." Mozambique's extremist insurgency began in northern Cabo Delgado province, bordering Tanzania in the north and the Indian Ocean to the east, in October 2017. The rebels dramatically stepped up their attacks in 2020 and in August captured the strategic port city of Mocimboa da Praia and have held it for nearly a month.


Saturday, June 01, 2019

Injinia Mweusi Aua Huko Virginia!

Pichani ni Dewayne Caraddock

Hivi, inakuaje injinia (Engineer) mweusi, msomi, mwenye kipato kikubwa anaamua kuua wafanyakazi wenzake?  Jana,  Injinia Dewayne Craddock mwenye miaka 40, aliua wafanykazi wenzake 12 walipokuwa wanamaliza siku ya kazi huko Virgina Beach, Virginia.  Polisi walimua Craddock hapo papo.

Sasa, watu hapa USA wauliza kwa nini walimuwua wakati wauaji wa kizungu wanakamatwa na kuwekwa gerezani?   Na kawaida hao wauaji wa wengi wanakuwa wazungu, imekuaje huyo baba mweusi aliamua kuua?

Unaweza kusoma habari zaidi hapa:

Watu waliuawa  May 31, 2019 na Dewayne Craddock, walikuwa wanfanyakazi wenzake

Thursday, April 04, 2019

Kumbukumbu - Mauaji Rwanda 1994

Wadau, nilikuwa mwandihsi wa habari katika gazeti la serikali, Daily News. Siku ya 4/4/1994, tulipata Telex kibao kuwa watu wanafurika Bukoba na sehemu zingine mpakani kutoka Rwanda. walisema watu wanauawa ovyo, kisa...eti WaTusi!  Walisema watu waliokuwa marafiki jana, leo ni maadui!  Asante Mwalimu  Nyerere, sisi waTanzania wote ni NDUGU!

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Rwanda genocide victims 1994

By The Associated Press

   KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Twenty-five years ago, Rwanda descended into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history.

   The massacres, mostly by gangs wielding machetes, swept across Rwanda and groups of people were killed in their homes and farms and where they sought shelter in churches and schools. The mass killings started after a plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, in the capital, Kigali, killing President Juvenal Habyarimana. The killers were encouraged by hate messages broadcast on radio stations. Rwandan police, military and other government authorities did not stop the killings.

   Scores of thousands of terrified Tutsis fled Rwanda for neighboring countries including Congo, Tanzania and Uganda. The waves of murders continued until the rebel forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country. Paul Kagame, who led the rebels, helped re-establish order in the country and served as vice-president and defense minister from 1994 until he became Rwanda's president in 2000. Under Kagame's leadership Rwanda has achieved stability and economic growth, although he is widely accused of being intolerant of criticism and of running a repressive government.

   The scale of the killings in 1994 was unimaginable but the reporting and photographs taken at the time, for which AP won Pulitzer prizes, helped to inform the world of the horrors of the genocide.



Saturday, September 09, 2017

Tanzania Police arrest Suspects in Killing of Wayne Lotter

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) - Police in Tanzania say they are holding suspects in the killing last month of prominent South African wildlife conservationist Wayne Lotter. Police chief Simon Sirro said in a statement Friday that some of Lotter's possessions were seized from the suspects. He did not say how many suspects are being held. Lotter was fatally shot in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam while being driven from the airport to his hotel. Lotter helped to train thousands of game scouts throughout the East African nation. He also developed an "intelligence-based approach" against poaching that has had success in countering wildlife trafficking, according to the U.S.-based conservation group PAMS Foundation that Lotter co-founded. Poachers have killed tens of thousands of elephants in Tanzania in the past decade.

Saturday, November 07, 2015

200 killed in Burundi since April including Son of Activist

Burundi: Killing of Welly Nzitonda

The late Welly Nzitonda

Press Statement

John Kirby
Department Spokesperson
Washington, DC
November 7, 2015





The United States is gravely concerned by the political and security situation in Burundi and condemns the killing in Bujumbura yesterday of Welly Nzitonda, the son of human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa. We extend our deepest condolences to Pierre Mbonimpa, whose son-in-law was murdered in October, and who himself has been jailed and shot in recent months.
Nzitonda’s killing is the latest in a cycle of violence between government security forces, armed opposition groups, and criminal gangs. In this context, we are particularly concerned that inflammatory rhetoric deployed in recent days by some government officials and President Nkurunziza’s planned security crackdown this weekend are increasing the risk of an outbreak of mass violence in Burundi.
The United States strongly urges the government to abandon plans for security operations that could inflame the situation, and we call on Burundian leaders—both in government and opposition—to immediately and publicly renounce violence and commit to regionally-mediated dialogue with all stakeholders, as called for by the UN Security Council, the African Union, and the East African Community. The United States stands ready to support this dialogue and encourages regional leadership in addressing this crisis to secure the safety and peace of the people of Burundi.‎ ‎

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 BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Carrying prized possessions, scores of people fled Burundi's capital Saturday before a looming security crackdown that many fear will be a wave of violence.

   A government-issued deadline to turn in illegal weapons or face extraordinary police action expires midnight Saturday and President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose decision to extend his rule sparked the country's current crisis, has urged the security forces to use all means necessary to restore order.

   But many here blame the security forces for a series of killings that has raised international concern and convinced residents in some volatile areas to flee their homes.

   At least 198 people have been killed in Burundi since late April, when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid that was ultimately successful for a third term in office, according to U.N. officials. At least 13 people have died in the past week, with many coming from Bujumbura neighborhoods known as opposition strongholds. More than 200,000 people have fled Burundi fearing violence.

   Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, warned Friday of a worsening security situation and said perpetrators would face justice.

   In Cibitoke and Mutakura, neighborhoods in northern Bujumbura that have been hotbeds of anti-government protests, some residents told The Associated Press Saturday they had no option but to seek refuge elsewhere. In order to leave their home areas they had to pass through search cordons mounted by the security personnel looking for illegal guns. Some carried bed mats on their heads and children on their backs.

   "Now I decide to leave as everyone is leaving. There is fear everywhere. But I still believe in God and all this will end," said Marguerite Bigira, an elderly woman who was among a group of people fleeing Mutakura.

   Although the current violence appears to be political, Burundi has a history of deadly conflicts between the country's Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. Nkurunziza took power in 2005 near the end of a civil war in which some 300,000 people were killed between 1993 and 2006.

   Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Thursday quoted the president of the Burundian Senate, Révérien Ndikuriyo, as saying: "You tell those who want to execute the mission: On this issue, you have to pulverize, you have to exterminate - these people are only good for dying. I give you this order, go!"

   Human Rights Watch said Saturday that in the last two days some neighborhoods in Bujumbura "have started to empty" as panicked people flee to areas where they consider less dangerous.

   "Burundians take these warnings seriously, having seen relatives, friends, and neighbors shot dead by the police during nightly raids. Panic has set in, and some residents of Bujumbura have been packing up their belongings and fleeing," the group said in a statement Saturday. "The police have a duty to restore security and disarm people who have weapons illegally, and they can use lethal force when lives are at imminent risk. But that does not give them a license to kill."

   Mutakura resident Philbert Nzinahora said that a family in Bujumbura's Carama neighborhood, seen as more peaceful, has agreed to host his wife and children until it is safe for them to return home. He will not accompany them, in order not to compromise their safety, he said: "I will find another place to go."

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Mtoto wa Whitney Houston Afariiki Dunia! Alikuwa na mialka 22 tu!

 Wadau, kuna habari ya kusiktisha leo.  Bobbi Kristina Brown (22) amefariki dunia leo.  Alikuwa mahututi tangu mwezi wa kwanza (Januari) alipokutwa amezama kwenye maji bafuni kwake.  Ajabu Bobbi Kristina ndiye aligundua maiti ya mama yake ikiwa imezama kwenye maji bafuni miaka mitanao iliyopita.  Kuna wanaodai mpenzi wake, Nick Gordon, kafanya njama amwue ili apate pesa zake.  Polisi bado wanafanyafanya uchunguzi.  

Mwenyezi mungu ailaze roho ya Bobbi Kristina ahala pema mbinguni. Amen. Pole sana Bobby Brown.

http://uptownmagazine.com/files/2012/11/Bobbi-Kristina.jpg
The Late Bobbi Kristina Brown (1993-2015)

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Kutoka: ET Online


Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late music legend Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died on July 26, surrounded by her family, at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia. She was 22.
"She is finally at peace in the arms of God," the Houston family said in statement to ET. "We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months."
On Jan. 31, Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in her bathtub and was then taken to North Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Georgia, where she was put on a ventilator to assist her breathing. She was later placed in a medically induced coma at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital.

VIDEO: Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina Brown: A Circle of Tragedy
Nearly two months later. she was moved to a rehabilitation center, where she remained until June 24, when she was moved to the hospice center.

Kwa habari kamili BOFYA HAPA:

Saturday, March 07, 2015

Waganga wa Kienyeji 32 wakamatwa Tanzania - Mauaji ya Albino

Siku ya Alhamisi ,watu wanne walihukumiwa kifo kwa mauaji ya mwanamke albino mwaka wa 2008 katika jimbo hilo.

Serikali iliwapiga marufuku waganga wa kienyeji mwezi Januari kama mojawapo ya kampeni ya kusitisha mauaji hayo.

Kwa habari Kamili BOFYA HAPA: 

Albino Children in Tanzania

Thursday, March 05, 2015

Rais Kikwete Akutana na Uongozi wa Chama cha Albino

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akiongea na viongozi wa Chama Cha Albino Tanzania Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo. Walioketi kushoto ni Waziri wa Sheria na Katiba Dkt Asha Rose Migiro, Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani Mhe Mathias Chikawe na Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali Mhe George Mcheche Masaju Kamishna wa Ustawi wa Jamii Bw. Rabirika Mushi na Kaimu Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii, Jinsia na Watoto Bw. Emmanuel Achayo 
Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akifafanua jambo wakati akiongea na viongozi Wa Chama Cha Albino Tanzania Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo.
Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete katika picha ya pamoja na viongozi Wa Chama Cha Albino Tanzania baad ya kukutana nao pamoja na Waziri wa Sheria na Katiba Dkt Asha Rose Migiro, Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani Mhe Mathias Chikawe na Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali Mhe George Mcheche Masaju Kamishna wa Ustawi wa Jamii Bw. Rabirika Mushi na Kaimu Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii, Jinsia na Watoto Bw. Emmanuel Achayo Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo. PICHA NA IKULU

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Jihadi John na Uhusiano wake na Tanzania


Kumbe Usalama wa Taifia walimgundua Jihadi John mpaema. Walimzuia kuingia Tanzania kwa ajili ya Safari ya kutembelea mbuga za wanyama. Walisema nia yake ilikuwa kwenda kujinga na Al Shabab Somalia. Jihadi John ameua mateka wa kizungu na kiJapani kadhaa huko Syria kwa kuwakata vichwa (Beheading). Jihadi John kumbe ni msomi na anatoa kwenye familia enye uwezo.


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   LONDON (AP) - The unmasking of Islamic State militant "Jihadi John" as a Londoner who had repeatedly been questioned by security services sent shock waves through Britain Friday, with Prime Minister David Cameron stepping in to defend British spy craft.

   Cameron tried to defuse criticism of Britain's intelligence community, which had "Jihadi John" on its list of potential terror suspects for years but was unable to prevent him from traveling to Syria, where he has played a prominent role in grisly beheading videos.

   Cameron did not mention "Jihadi John" or refer to his real identity: Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwait-born computer science graduate raised and educated in Britain. But he said the country's spies make "incredibly difficult judgments" daily about how to pursue threats to national security and have broken up plots that would have caused immense damage.

   Emwazi had been known to the British intelligence services since at least 2009, initially in connection with investigations into terrorism in Somalia.

   David Anderson, who is in charge of reviewing Britain's terrorism legislation, said intelligence agencies may have dropped the ball, but faced a big challenge to identify real threats from "hundreds, probably thousands" of suspects.

   "Perhaps they did slip up in this case but one won't know until there's been an inquiry or a report of some kind," he told the BBC.
Mohammed Emwazi aka Jihadi John

   The case has some parallels to that of two al-Qaida-inspired extremists who murdered a British soldier in a London street in May 2013. A report by lawmakers concluded that delays and other failings by the agencies had contributed to that tragedy.

   However, it is not clear what laws could have been used to prevent Emwazi from leaving Britain at the time, since he had not been charged with any terrorist-related offenses. It is not known if police or security services had any evidence he was planning to join extremists in Syria.

   His identification as the front man in IS murder videos has raised questions about how a soccer-playing London youngster who liked smart clothes became one of the world's most wanted men.

   Authorities were working to piece together the path to radicalization of Emwazi, who came to Britain from Kuwait as a small child and attended state schools in London before studying computer science at the University of Westminster.

   Court documents from 2011 obtained by the BBC list Emwazi as part of a network of west London men suspected by MI5 of sending funds, equipment and recruits to al-Shabab militants in Somalia. The group included Bilail al-Berjawi, a Lebanese-British militant who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Somalia in January 2012.

   Emails that Emwazi sent to a Muslim advocacy group reveal a young man increasingly frustrated by the attentions of British spies and angry at the plight of Muslims around the world.

   Emwazi approached the group, CAGE, after he and two friends were arrested and deported on a trip to Tanzania in August 2009. They said they were going on a post-university safari. But Emwazi said he was grilled by a British intelligence officer who accused him of trying to travel to Somalia to link up with terrorists there.

   He said the agent, who identified himself as Nick, suggested Emwazi "work for us" before saying "life will be harder for you" if he did not cooperate.

   It is clear that Emwazi was unnerved after his unwanted interrogation.

   "He knew everything about me; where I lived, what I did, the people I hanged around with," he wrote in one of the emails that CAGE made public Thursday. "He even said that he would try to visit me. But I refused and told him that I did not want him to pay me a visit."

   The following year Emwazi accused British agents of preventing him from going to Kuwait, where he had a job and planned to marry. He wrote in one email that his "`life' is kind of on a `pause."'

   Like many British Muslims who have become radicalized in recent years, he seemed to feel that Muslims were increasingly under attack in many parts of the world and complained to CAGE of the plight of his fellow believers in Chechnya, Iraq and elsewhere.

   CAGE said that Emwazi even changed his name in a bid to escape the attentions of the security services, but still was barred from going to Kuwait. His family reported him missing early in 2013. Four months later, police told them Emwazi was in Syria, CAGE said.

   He appeared in a video released in August showing the slaying of American journalist James Foley, denouncing the West before the killing. A man with similar stature and voice was also featured in videos of the IS killings of American journalist Steven Sotloff, Britons David Haines and Alan Hemming, and U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

   Foley's parents in Arizona on Thursday expressed surprise that "Jihadi John" was an educated man who had real prospects in life.

   "So he, in a sense, had a privileged upbringing, so to me that makes that even more sad that he'd want to use his gifts for such evil and such hatred. It's very frightening to me," Diane Foley said.

   "We need to forgive him for not having a clue what he was doing," she said.

   The widow of Haines, a British aid worker, said Friday she would like to see "Jihadi John" captured and put on trial.

   Dragana Haines told The Associated Press in a phone interview from her home in Croatia that "I really hope he will be caught, I think it would be a good lesson for all."

   Haines, whose husband was killed in September, said she would rather see Emwazi judged in a court of law than killed by enemy action.

   "People of his kind believe that death in combat is an honor, something special," she said.

   In the modest west London neighborhood where Emwazi's family lived, citizens were shocked after his identify was revealed.

   Sharaft Ullah, who worships at the Harrow Road Mosque near the family home, remembered Emwazi as a strict Muslim who prayed several times a day. He said Emwazi was "a very good local guy and polite with everybody."

   "I feel angry because he was educated in this country and he graduated from Westminster," Ullah said. "If he has been doing these things it's wrong."

   Another mosque that Emwazi was reported to have attended, the Greenwich Islamic Centre, said it had no knowledge of him.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

UVCCM Mkoa wa Lindi Walaani Mauji ya Albino na Kumpongeza Rais Kwa Uteuzi wa Wakuu wa Wilaya

Saturday, February 07, 2015

Mbunge na Walinzi wake Wauawa Kenya!

The Late MP for Kabete, George Muchai

   NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan police say a lawmaker has been shot and killed on a street in the capital, Nairobi, by masked gunmen.

   Nairobi Central Police Chief Paul Wanjama said the lawmaker, George Muchai, was killed alongside his two bodyguards and a driver after they stopped to buy a newspaper from a vendor early Saturday. He said the gunmen then sped away in their car.

   The killings are likely to stoke insecurity fears in Kenya, which has also been dealing with occasional terrorist attacks mounted by Islamic militants seeking revenge over Kenyan military involvement in Somalia.

   Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said in a statement that Kenya "is bleeding and an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness is spreading" across the country.

Murder Scene

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Mshenzi aua Mke Wake Hotelini Manzese!

Hii hatari sana!! Mwanaume anayejulikana kwa jina la Remy Joseph (35) anashikiliwa na polisi kwa kumchinja mke wake wa ndoa kabisa aitwaye Josephine Ndengaleo Mushi waliyeishi naye miaka 10 na kuzaa watoto wawili. Tukio hilo la kutisha lilijiri ndani ya chumba kimoja kilichopo ghorofa ya pili ya Hotel Friend’s Corner Ltd iliyopo Manzese Argentina, Dar ambapo walikuwa wamechukua chumba katika hoteli hiyo kwaajili ya kulala hapo.
Polisi walifanya uchunguzi chumbani na kugundua kuwa, marehemu Josephine alichinjwa shingoni, akakatwa mbavu mbili, moyo na maini vilikuwa nje ‘vikimwagika’, mwisho alichomwa kisu utosini.. Cha kusikitisha zaidi, mwili wa marehemu Josephine ulipigishwa magoti, sehemu ya miguu mpaka magoti ikiwa sakafuni na kifuani kulalia kitanda. Halafu ulifunikwa shuka
Katika hali iliyoonesha kuwa, mtuhumiwa baada ya kutenda ukatili huo alitaka kujinyonga, polisi walikuta waya wa umeme wa tivii ukining’inia kwenye pangaboi lakini ukiwa umekatika. Na pia damu na alama za kujikata visu shingoni.
Sababu ya kufanya hivyo haijujulikana ila ndugu wa mke wa marehemu walielezea kuwa mme alikuwa akimhisi vibaya mkewe.
R.I.P Josephine Mushi

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Mweusi Mwenye Hasira Aua Polisi Mjini New York Halafu Ajiua!

Wadau, ni kipindi cha hatari hapa USA. Weusi wanauawa na polisi kama wanyama halalfu wanaachiwa na wazungu wabaguzi! Hasira zina zidi kupanda na hata baadhi ya wazungu wanaona kuna ubaguzi dhidi ya weusi! Jana, kijana mweusi mweye hasira alitoka Baltimore, Maryland na kwenda mjini New York kwa nia ya kuua polisi. Aliua wawili waliokuwa wanakula chakula cha mchana ndani ya gari yao ya kazi (Cruiser)!  

Na sasa polisi wabaguzi wanasema kuwa watapiaga watu risasi na kujibu maswali baadaye! Yaani chuki na moyo ya ubaguzi unazidi!  Kwa kweli mtuombee, maana sijui nchi hii inaelekea wapi! Wzaungu wen gine wana hasiri kwa vile nchi inatawaliwa na mweusi! Ingawa Raisi Obama kafanya mengi mazuri katika kipindi kifupia, hawawezi kumpa sifa hata kidogo!  Wanamponda na kufanya kazi yake iwe ngumu!

Na tumwombee usalama wa Meya wa New York, Bill DeBlasio. DeBlasio ameoa mwanamke mweusi na ana watoto weusi,  Amesema wazi kuwa amemonya mtoto wake aw mwanaglifu na polisi maana wanaweza kumwua kwa vile ni mweusi! Jana DeBlasio alivyoenda hospitalini, polisi walimpa mgongo! Wanasema kuwa DeBlasio ndo sababu yule kijana katoka Baltimore kuua polisi New York!

Meya wa New York, Bill DeBlasio na Familia yake
 Kazi ya polisi ni kulinda Rais na viongozi! Lakaini hao wa Mjini New york ni wa aina yake!

Weusi walioawawa na polisi hivi karibuni ni Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, John CrawfordSean Bell,   na wengine.

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Polisi waliowawa mjini New York - Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu

   NEW YORK (AP) - A gunman who vowed online to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two New York City officers in a patrol car and fatally shot them in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said.

   Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, wrote on an Instagram account: "I'm putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let's take 2 of theirs," two city officials with direct knowledge of the case confirmed for The Associated Press. He used the hashtags Shootthepolice RIPErivGardner (sic) RIPMikeBrown.

   The officials, a senior city official and a law enforcement official, were not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonymity.

   Police said Brinsley approached the passenger window of a marked police car and opened fire, striking Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in the head. The officers were on special patrol doing crime reduction work in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

   "They were, quite simply, assassinated - targeted for their uniform," said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who looked pale and shaken at a hospital news conference.

   The sudden and extraordinary violence stunned the city, prompted a response from vacationing President Barack Obama and escalated weeks of simmering ill will between police and their critics following grand jury decisions not to indict officers in the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri. Garner and Brown were black; the officers who killed them are white.

   Demonstrators around the country have staged die-ins and other protests following the grand jury decisions. The New York police union head declared there's "blood on the hands" of protesters and the city's mayor.

   Brinsley took off running after the shooting. Officers chased him down to a nearby subway station, where he shot himself in the head as a subway train door full of people closed. A silver handgun was recovered at the scene, Bratton said.

   "This may be my final post," Brinsley wrote in the post that included an image of a silver handgun. The post had more than 200 likes but also had many others admonishing his statements.

   Bratton said the suspect made very serious "anti-police" statements online but did not get into specifics of the posts.

   The Rev. Al Sharpton said Garner's family has no connection to the suspect and denounced the violence.

   "We have stressed at every rally and march that anyone engaged in any violence is an enemy to the pursuit of justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown," he said.

   Brown's family condemned the shooting in a statement posted online by their attorney.

   "We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. It cannot be tolerated. We must work together to bring peace to our communities," the family said.

   Most of the protests have been peaceful, particularly in New York. Bratton said police were investigating whether Brinsley had attended any rallies or demonstrations and why he had chosen to kill the officers.

   Brinsley was black; the officers were Asian and Hispanic, police said.

   Mayor Bill de Blasio said the killings of Ramos and Liu strike at the heart of the city.

   "Our city is in mourning. Our hearts are heavy," said de Blasio, who spoke softly with moist eyes. "It is an attack on all of us."

   Scores of officers in uniform lined up three rows deep at the hospital driveway. The line stretched into the street. Officers raised their hands in a silent salute as two ambulances bore away the slain officers' bodies. The mayor ordered flags at half-staff.

   In a statement Saturday night, Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the shooting deaths as senseless and "an unspeakable act of barbarism." Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, issued a statement saying he unconditionally condemns the slayings.

   "The officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day - and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day," Obama said. "Tonight, I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal - prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen."

   The tragedy ended a bizarre route for Brinsley that began in Maryland early Saturday. He went to the home of a former girlfriend in a Baltimore suburb and shot and wounded her. Police there said they noticed Brinsley posting from the woman's Instagram account threats to kill New York officers.

   Baltimore-area officials sent a warning to New York City police, who received it moments too late, Bratton said.

   But the posts were apparently online for hours, though it's not clear if anyone reported them. Bratton called on New Yorkers to alert authorities of any threats to police they see - even if they don't seem real. "That information must get into the hands of the police officers," he said.

   Brinsley had a history of arrests in Georgia for robbery, disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon. Bratton said his last-known address was in Georgia, but he had some ties to Brooklyn.

   Meanwhile, the department grieved the sudden and violent loss of the officers.

   "Both officers paid the ultimate sacrifice today while protecting the communities they serve," Bratton said Saturday night.

   Ramos was married with a 13-year-old son and had another in college, police and a friend said. He had been on the job since 2012 and was a school safety officer. Liu had been on the job for seven years and got married two months ago.

   Rosie Orengo, a friend of Ramos, said he was heavily involved in their church and encouraged others in their marriages.

   "He was an amazing man. He was the best father and husband and friend," she said. "Our peace is knowing that he's OK, and we'll see him in heaven."

   De Blasio and the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, have been locked in a public battle over treatment of officers following the grand jury's decision. Just days ago, Lynch suggested police officers sign a petition that demanded the mayor not attend their funerals should they die on the job. On Saturday, some officers turned their backs on de Blasio as he walked into the hospital.

   "That blood on the hands starts at the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor," Lynch said. "After the funerals, those responsible will be called on the carpet and held accountable."

   The last shooting death of a New York City officer came in December 2011, when 22-year veteran Peter Figoski was shot in the face while responding to a report of a break-in at a Brooklyn apartment. The triggerman, Lamont Pride, was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2013 to 45 years to life in prison.

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   Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire and Tom McElroy in New York, Juliet Linderman in Baltimore and Josh Lederman in Honolulu contributed to this report.

  

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Al Shsabab Waua Abiria wa Basi wasio WaIslam Kenya

 Jamani, jamani! Tunaelekea wapi? Hizi chuki za kidini ziishe!  Siyo utamaduni ya Afrika Mashariki.

Mungu ailaze roho zao mahala pema mbinguni. Amen.

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Police: Al-Shabab militants kill 28 in Kenya bus

   NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Police officials say al-Shabab militants from Somalia have hijacked a bus in northern Kenya and killed 28 non-Muslims on board.

   The two police officers said Saturday that the bus traveling to the capital Nairobi was hijacked 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Mandera town. The officers say the gunmen singled out non-Muslims and shot them dead.

   The officers insisted on anonymity out of fear of reprisals because of an order from Kenya's police chief that officers not speak to the media.

   Kenya has been hit by a series of gun and bomb attacks blamed on Somalia's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants since it sent troops into Somalia in October 2011. Authorities say there have been at least 135 attacks since then, including the Westgate Mall attack in which 67 people were killed.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Ugaidi Kenya - Watu 87 Wamekufa!

   NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Seven people were killed when gunmen attacked a bus at the Kenyan coast where previous attacks had left 87 people dead, the Kenya Red Cross said Saturday.

   The attack Friday night came at Corner Mbaya, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the coastal town of Witu in Lamu county, the humanitarian group said. Two of those killed were security officials and five were civilians, the Red Cross said. Authorities believe many of the passengers in the 52-seater bus fled into a nearby forest.

   Al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants from Somalia claimed responsibility for the attack.

   "The attack was carried out in response to the Kenyan government's claim that all the areas that have recently been subject for attacks were secured after having deployed troops," the group said.

   Al-Shabab said the attackers were sending a message to Kenya that they cannot stop the group's operations in coastal areas.

   Al-Shabab has vowed to carry out attacks on Kenyan soil to avenge the presence of Kenyan troops fighting the militants in Somalia.  In September, four al-Shabab gunmen attacked an upscale in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, killing 67 people.

   Al-Shabab has also claimed responsibility for previous attacks along the coast but the Kenyan government claims local political networks are responsible.



Saturday, July 12, 2014

Kuna nini Mbeya? Watu 135 Wameuawa!

Kamanda wa Polisi Mbeya Ahmed Msangi
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WATU 135 wameuawa katika matukio tofauti yaliyotokea mkoani Mbeya katika kipindi cha kuanzia Januari hadi Julai mwaka huu.
 
Kiasi hicho cha matukio ya mauaji ni sawa na pungufu ya matukio 21 sawa na asilimia 14 ikilinganisha na yale 156 yaliyotokea katika kipindi kama hicho mwaka jana.
 
Akitoa taarifa ya utendaji wa jeshi la polisi mkoani Mbeya, Kamanda wa polisi mkoani hapa Ahmed Msangi alisema katika takwimu hizo mauaji yaliyotokana na wananchi kujichukulia sheria mikononi yalikuwa 33.
 
Alisema mauaji yaliyosababishwa na imani za kishirikina yalikuwa 23 sawa na matukio ya mauaji yaliyotokana na sababu nyingine huku matukio ya mauaji yaliyosababishwa na wivu au ugoni yalikuwa 20.
 
Matukio ya mauaji yaliyotokana na ugomvi wa majumbani yalikuwa 16, matukio ya ugomvi vilabuni 11 na matukio ya kulipiza kisasi yalikuwa tisa.
Alisema katika kipindi hicho wahamiaji haramu 159 walikamatwa kati yao 152 walikuwa raia wa Ethiopia, 23 raia wa Burundi,10 Wasomali, saba Wapakistani, wawili kutoka Malawi na mmoja akiwa ni raia wa Msumbiji.
 
“Katika kipindi hicho tumeweza kukamata bunduki 19 ambapo gobori zilikuwa 15, bastola mbili zilizotengenezwa kienyeji, Riffle moja na SMG moja. Pia zilikamatwa silaha mbili baada ya majambazi kuuawa katika jaribio la kufanya unyang’anyi. Silaha hizo ni SMG yenye namba 3514 na AK-47 namba 592058 na risasi 25 kwenye magazini,” alisema Kamanda Msangi.
 
Aliongeza kuwa katika kipindi hicho kiasi cha lita 479 za gongo pamoja na mitambo 16 ya kutengenezea pombe hiyo vilikamatwa.
 
Kilo 296 na gramu 678 na miche 314 ya bangi zilikamatwa sambamba na mashamba matatu ya bangi yenye ukubwa wa jumla ya ekari moja na robo.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Ujambazi Geita

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Taarifa kutoka kwa mdau S.A.

June 24, 2014

Wadau,
Jioni ya leo majambazi wamempiga risasi mbili kifuani na tumboni mfanyabiashara maarufu kwa jina la Warwa na inasemekana amefariki dunia papo hapo kwenye duka lake la uwakala wa mitandao ya kutuma na kupokea pesa maarufu kama mpesa, airtel money na tigo pesa lililopo soko kuu kwenye barabara ielekeayo kwenye benki za nmb, nbc na posta.
Mpaka sasa mji wa Geita umekumbwa na taharuki kubwa kutokana na tukio hilo. Mpaka kufikia saa mbili usiku huu bado kulikuwa na makundi ya watu wengi kwenye eneo la tukio na kwenye maeneo ya hospitali kuu ya wilaya ya Geita.
Inasikitisha sana maana inasemekana kuwa pamoja na polisi kuwa karibu na eneo hilo lakini majambazi hao wamefanikiwa kutoroka kwa kutumia pikipiki. Vishindo vya risasi zinazoamika kumuua ndugu Warwa vilisikika mbali kutoka kwenye eneo hilo la tukio.
SA.

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June 25, 2014

Wadau,
Taarifa zilizopo Geita zinaoonyesha kuwa majambazi hao waliuwawa jana ile ile, walipoondoka na pikipiki, walikuwa wakifuatwa kwa nyuma kwa mbali na madreva pikipiki ambao waliwatonya polisi uelekeo walikokuwa wanakimbilia!

Inasemekana walikuwa wanakimbilia uelekeo wa Nyang'wale, polisi wa Geita wakawajulisha wenzao wa Nyang'wale ambao nao wakawatangizia hao jamaa barabarani na kuwaua.
Utambuzi wa maiti za majambazi hao wawili ulionyesha kuwa mmojawapo ni mpwa wa marehemu aliyevamiwa na kuuwawa! Na hii ni baada ya dada wa Warwa kumtambua kijana huyo kuwa ni mwanae!

Habari zaidi zinasema kuwa, kabla ya kupigwa risasi zile kifuani na tumboni, marehemu Warwa alimtambua mpwa wake huyo na kutamka kuwa, "....hata wewe ..... umejiunga na ujambazi kuja kunivamia mimi mjomba wako?", na huenda hiyo ilikuwa sababu ya kuuwawa kule na kijana huyo!
Taarifa zilizopo hapa Geita zinasema jana hiyo hiyo, ndani ya muda mfupi sana, kulikuwa na matukio mawili ya ujambazi, hilo la hapo kwa marehemu Warwa na jingine kwa mfanyabiashara wa jumla wa bia ndugu Inyasi, ambaye yeye hakukutwa dukani bali mke wake na watu wengine. Hapo waliishia kupora fedha na bostora iliyokuwemo kwenye droo na kukimbilia kusikojulikana.
Haijajulikana kama matukio haya yalifanywa na watu walewale au tofauti, lakini inasemekana yana uhusiano. Inasemekana kiasi kikubwa cha fedha kiliporwa, na wadau wanatonya kuwa huenda pesa hiyo ilikuwa ni zaidi ya shilingi mil. 50!
SA.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Protect People with Albinism

South African Navanethem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Pillay told reporters she was "disappointed" that China welcomed Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir during a visit this week, rather than arrest him to ensure he stands trial. She said that "the whole world favors trial" for al-Bashir for his role in the civil war in Sudan that killed more than 2 million people. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUT

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Thursday for increased protection for people with albinism, after the barbaric murder of a 40-year-old woman with albinism in north-western Tanzania on 12 May.

“This killing and the terrible circumstances surrounding it sadly demonstrate that the human rights situation of people with albinism in Tanzania and other countries, remains dire,” Pillay said.

According to police reports, Munghu Lugata was brutally murdered Monday night at her home in Mwachalala, a village in Simiyu region, north-western Tanzania. Her attackers chopped off her left leg above the knee, two of her fingers and the upper part of her left thumb, apparently while she was still alive.

These attacks, which are often motivated by the use of body parts for ritual purposes, have claimed the lives of at least 73 people with albinism in Tanzania since 2000. Ms Lugata’s murder is the first reported killing of someone with albinism in Tanzania in 2014.

Pillay welcomed the rapid response of the police, who arrested two local witchdoctors on 13 May.

“The fight against impunity is a key component for prevention and deterrence of the crimes targeting this exceptionally vulnerable community,” Pillay said, while noting that victims often face significant difficulties in bringing their cases to justice, fearing retaliatory attacks or further stigmatization. Without effective and affordable access to justice, many cannot claim their rights.

The High Commissioner stressed that States’ obligation to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of such crimes is particularly critical due to the vulnerability of people with albinism. States must also ensure access to effective remedies, redress and rehabilitation, including medical and psychological care for survivors and victims’ families.

“All over the world, people with albinism continue to face attacks or suffer terrible discrimination, stigma and social exclusion,” said the High Commissioner. The UN Human Rights Office has received reports of more than 200 cases of attacks against people with albinism in 15 countries between 2000 and 2013, but it is believed the actual number could be much higher.

The High Commissioner also expressed concern about the appalling living conditions in at least of Tanzania’s 13 centres for displaced children and adults with special needs. These centres host hundreds of children with albinism who have been abandoned by their families or have fled their homes out of fear of being attacked or killed. Some are administrated by the Government while others are run by faith-based organizations.

The 13 shelters are overcrowded, with very poor health and hygiene conditions. Many of the children with albinism living there reportedly suffer from skin cancer, partly due to the lack of awareness of the staff about a number of simple steps that can be taken to prevent this disease. Cases of sexual abuse have also been reported in some of these centres. Due to the very limited human and financial resources, teaching and learning materials are reported to be almost non-existent in most of them.

“I urge the Tanzanian authorities to take urgent measures to assess and address the situation in these centres, including allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, and the poor living conditions. The staff working with people with albinism should be trained on their special needs, in particular with regard to basic preventive measures to avoid skin cancer,” Pillay said.

The High Commissioner also called upon the Tanzanian authorities to take urgent concrete measures to protect people with albinism, and to actively engage in the fight against stigma attached to albinism through education and awareness-raising campaigns.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Tunamkumbuka Mh. Patrice Lumumba

 Mh. Patrice Lumumba alikuwa Waziri Mkuu wa Congo baada ya nchi hiyo kupata Uhuru kutoka Ubelgiji. Aliuawa na CIA, na maiti yake iliyeyshhwa kwenye pipa la tindikali.  Wadau, wazungu waliuumiza sana maendeleo ya Afrika miaka ya 1960's-1970's wakati nchi nyingi za Afrika zilikuwa changa. 

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Kutoka THE GUARDIAN

Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century

The US-sponsored plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, took place 50 years ago today
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Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, and was killed in 1961. Photograph: EPA
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed.
Ludo De Witte, the Belgian author of the best book on this crime, qualifies it as "the most important assassination of the 20th century". The assassination's historical importance lies in a multitude of factors, the most pertinent being the global context in which it took place, its impact on Congolese politics since then and Lumumba's overall legacy as a nationalist leader.
For 126 years, the US and Belgium have played key roles in shaping Congo's destiny. In April 1884, seven months before the Berlin Congress, the US became the first country in the world to recognise the claims of King Leopold II of the Belgians to the territories of the Congo Basin.
When the atrocities related to brutal economic exploitation in Leopold's Congo Free State resulted in millions of fatalities, the US joined other world powers to force Belgium to take over the country as a regular colony. And it was during the colonial period that the US acquired a strategic stake in the enormous natural wealth of the Congo, following its use of the uranium from Congolese mines to manufacture the first atomic weapons, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
With the outbreak of the cold war, it was inevitable that the US and its western allies would not be prepared to let Africans have effective control over strategic raw materials, lest these fall in the hands of their enemies in the Soviet camp. It is in this regard that Patrice Lumumba's determination to achieve genuine independence and to have full control over Congo's resources in order to utilise them to improve the living conditions of our people was perceived as a threat to western interests. To fight him, the US and Belgium used all the tools and resources at their disposal, including the United Nations secretariat, under Dag Hammarskjöld and Ralph Bunche, to buy the support of Lumumba's Congolese rivals , and hired killers.
In Congo, Lumumba's assassination is rightly viewed as the country's original sin. Coming less than seven months after independence (on 30 June, 1960), it was a stumbling block to the ideals of national unity, economic independence and pan-African solidarity that Lumumba had championed, as well as a shattering blow to the hopes of millions of Congolese for freedom and material prosperity.
The assassination took place at a time when the country had fallen under four separate governments: the central government in Kinshasa (then Léopoldville); a rival central government by Lumumba's followers in Kisangani (then Stanleyville); and the secessionist regimes in the mineral-rich provinces of Katanga and South Kasai. Since Lumumba's physical elimination had removed what the west saw as the major threat to their interests in the Congo, internationally-led efforts were undertaken to restore the authority of the moderate and pro-western regime in Kinshasa over the entire country. These resulted in ending the Lumumbist regime in Kisangani in August 1961, the secession of South Kasai in September 1962, and the Katanga secession in January 1963.
No sooner did this unification process end than a radical social movement for a "second independence" arose to challenge the neocolonial state and its pro-western leadership. This mass movement of peasants, workers, the urban unemployed, students and lower civil servants found an eager leadership among Lumumba's lieutenants, most of whom had regrouped to establish a National Liberation Council (CNL) in October 1963 in Brazzaville, across the Congo river from Kinshasa. The strengths and weaknesses of this movement may serve as a way of gauging the overall legacy of Patrice Lumumba for Congo and Africa as a whole.
The most positive aspect of this legacy was manifest in the selfless devotion of Pierre Mulele to radical change for purposes of meeting the deepest aspirations of the Congolese people for democracy and social progress. On the other hand, the CNL leadership, which included Christophe Gbenye and Laurent-Désiré Kabila, was more interested in power and its attendant privileges than in the people's welfare. This is Lumumbism in words rather than in deeds. As president three decades later, Laurent Kabila did little to move from words to deeds.
More importantly, the greatest legacy that Lumumba left for Congo is the ideal of national unity. Recently, a Congolese radio station asked me whether the independence of South Sudan should be a matter of concern with respect to national unity in the Congo. I responded that since Patrice Lumumba has died for Congo's unity, our people will remain utterly steadfast in their defence of our national unity.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Tanzia - Jerry Isaac Mruma (1990-2013)

The Late Jerry Isaac Mruma

Ninakushukuruni marafiki zangu, ninazishukuru blogu na tovuti zote zilizotoa tangazo la kumtafuta Jerry Isaac Mruma, na yeyote kwa namna yoyote aliyotoa ushirikiano kwa ndugu, jamaa na marafiki kwa kusali, kuomba na kutoa maneno ya kutia faraja katika kipindi chote tokea Jumapili hadi kufikia leo, Ijumaa, Novemba 22, 2013 ambapo mwili wa Jerry umepatikana.

Habari zaidi zitatolewa na familia itakapokuwa tayari.

Asanteni.

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Wadau, nilifanya kazi Daily News na baba yake Jerry, Mzee Isaac Mruma.  Nakumbuka Isaac alivyooa na Jerry kuzaliwa. Jerry amefariki Kenya alipokuwa anasoma MBA.  Nimesikia kuwa Jerry ameuawa kwa kunyongwa karibu na Chuo aliyokuwa anasoma. Nangojea taarifa zaidi.
 
Poleni sana Mzee Isaac Mruma na familia.
REST IN ETERNAL PEACE JERRY MRUMA

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