MWEMBECHAI
KILLINGS
AND THE POLITICAL
FUTURE OF TANZANIA
On Friday 13 February, 1998 at the instigation of a Catholic priest of Mburahati parish in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzania government ordered its para-military police force to open fire on unarmed Muslims at Mwembechai area, killing at least four of them. It was soon discovered that the seditious claims made by the Catholic priest and repeatedly broadcast on a Catholic radio that Muslims were ridiculing Jesus were a sheer fabrication. Muslims’ demands for an independent probe team to investigate the killings were immediately rejected by the Minister for Home Affairs. The government also banned a meeting organised by Muslim women to speak out about the sexual humiliations and indignities they suffered at the hands of male police officers while in remand prison.
In this book Dr.
Njozi looks at the Mwembechai killings as a manifestation of a simmering
political crisis in Tanzania. The book provides unsettling details about
religious discrimination in a country which is thought by many as setting
a shining example to rest of the world. Tha author’s analysis of the looming
political tragedy in Tanzania is both illuminating and sympathetic.
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ISBN 1-894560-01-9
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DT448.2.N46 2000; 967.804'2; C00-900782-2
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