Tanganyika CCM's imperialistic designs are Zanzibari's nightmare

[Mohamed Said]

TANGANYIKA CCM'S IMPERIALISTIC DESIGNS ARE ZANZIBARI'S NIGHTMARE

BY FIRASH MIHARBI


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I read the article by Ali Mufuruki titled ?The problem of Zanzibar cannot be addressed without understanding the Revolution? in The East African magazine, with a unique sense of excitement and yet at the same time I was shocked and awed by the level of ignorance that he displayed in his latest narrative aimed at perpetuating a pseudo-justification that adds nothing more than extending the mainland Tanzania?s grip and entrench direct rule over the sovereignty of Zanzibar. Mr. Mufuruki should clearly understand by now that the majority of the people of Zanzibar see these kinds of narratives as nothing but the product of ethno-supremacist hatred made from the CCM?s neo-colonial enterprise over Zanzibar. And that is why for that reason, and in defiance of such ideological import from the mainland, the majority of the people of Zanzibar, irrespective of their ethnic background, colour, religion or creed, have rejected such politics of hatred and instead voted for hope and aspirations of the modern day needs of the economic and social progress since 1995 as Mr. Mufuruki himself admits.

If Mufuruki?s narrative were to be accepted, how then would you explain the so-called ?descendants of slavers? emerging as winners of all these elections since 1995? Does Mufuruki imply that racist and ethno-supremacist politics of CCM that risk inviting a new breed of political fascism in Zanzibar come before the sanctity of an individual?s democratic right which is the right to a free, fair, credible and just vote?

Talk about history and it is the CCM?s ideological lens that continues to disseminate such a vicious and ridiculous propaganda in schools, demonizing Arabs and Swahilis in particular and Muslims in general in their never-ending thirst to use the historical evil of 17th, 18th and 19th century slavery in order to distract the people and glorify the genocide they committed just 50 years ago and their present day evils and failures to recognize the sovereign right of Zanzibar in the Union, or suffocation of democracy and wanton violation of human rights against helpless, vulnerable and defenceless people of Zanzibar who are now being literally flooded with Jakaya Kikwete?s military arsenal as if Tanzania was going to war against another powerful sovereign state in the neighbourhood. Mufuruki?s personal arrogance and ignorance makes matters worse when he adds a pseudo-Marxist analysis about classes, and yet again, equate all this to ethnicity in a population that is so ethnically mixed. Doesn?t he know that there is hardly a family in Zanzibar that has no relatives from other so called "ethnic groups?? He should have sincerely done just a little research and discover for himself how many among the Revolutionary Council had "Arab" or "Indian" wives, and how many of their children were married to so called "non-African" or go back into history and find out how many Sultans of Zanzibar had "African" ancestors as well; or even travel to Zanzibar today and carry out a real statistical census and see for himself the demographic composition of the voters who voted for CUF in another hijacked elections last week.

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Zanzibar is made up of small islands community just like any other small islands in the world - whether in Caribbean, Pacific, or in the Indian Ocean region. Mufuruki should know that what CCM is doing is to show to other small island communities in the world that some continental states like Tanganyika would stop at nothing in ensuring the total annexation of a people whose fate was almost sealed 51 years ago and complete that annexation of a people with a total overhaul of their history, culture and a way of life.

Every society, at some point of time, succeeds in seeking reconciliation and we in Zanzibar began the process in November 2009 when our two great leaders, Seif Shariff Hamad and Dr. Amaan Abeid Karume brought Zanzibar back from the brink and began the process of a true national reconciliation. It proved that Zanzibaris were able, out of their own will and choice, to come together and rebuild their country without a direct negative interference from imperial Tanganyika?s CCM. In July 2010, 66% of Zanzibaris voted to install a Government of National Unity and reject the politics preferred by the imperialists in Tanganyika. What then is Mufuruki?s agenda if not servicing the divisive imperialist politics instigated by Tanganyika?s CCM over Zanzibar today? It is Mufuruki who needs to be educated ? and not from Tanganyika?s school curriculum which is loaded with propaganda -- and understand what Zanzibar and Zanzibaris want, not for him to have that ignorant view of defining who we are. We are a sovereign people, just like any other in this world.

Zanzibaris need an immediate and a permanent international intervention before CCM?s military rule starts clamping down on our pro-democracy advocates. Majority of Zanzibaris who came out to vote in droves for change last Sunday are grateful of an array of international community who came out in defence of democracy, justice and equality. We need more international intervention to restore our democratic right of choice and stop illegal interference from CCM in Tanganyika with its imperial colonial designs. CCM?s imperial colonial agenda is the problem devoid of solution, and Mufuruki should not, as a consequence of his ignorance and narrow perspectives, attempt to intimidate the international community on behalf of CCM. Parenthetically, there are many foreigners, some working in embassies, who are better informed about the problems between Zanzibar and Tanganyika than the likes of Mufuruki.

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Sadly, the people of Zanzibar are left pinned between the rock and a hard place. Yet again, their just and democratic aspirations are being dismissed with extreme prejudice and at the level of political arrogance exercised by imperial CCM in Tanganyika in front of the international community. We need international intervention to restore democracy rather than being bombarded by negative narratives coming from people such as Mufuruki who are part of the problem for Zanzibaris and in many ways for themselves and their own future as well, even though they are incapable of perceiving this fact.

Firash Miharbi

The above article is a reply to the following article (open the following link):
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/OpEd/comment/No-solution-Zanzibar-crisis-without-understanding-Revolution/-/434750/2936966/-/vd0drnz/-/index.html

 

[ulijualo]

It's very disturbing or rather annoying when you hear someone,distorting history just to justify an ideology, Slavery was not predominantlyin Zanzibar alone, but slavery was practiced worldwide as mode of production especiallybefore industrialization.



It's the fact that those who boast as the champions of abolishment of the slave trade they didthis not out of justice or pity on humane rather they did this in order to createa market for their machinery.


Zanzibaries of our generation including their grandfather'snone could bear witness to the actual slavery since the slavery was abolishedin the early 18[SUP]th[/SUP] century. To bind Zanzibar political division onracial or between descendants of slaves versus the descendants of slavers is a farfetchedcry!


The 1964 revolution came into just to remove the feudalsystem just like any other revolutions in other part of Africa like Egypt orLibya where the same feudal system was practiced.

The current political imbalance of Zanzibar is a product of tacticalplan orchestred in order to divide Zanzibar among the racial lines in order to createa vacuum for the benefit a certain group to continue their grip in the Islands contrary to the real Ideology behind the 1964 revolution.

I fully agree that the really solution to Zanzibar crisis isthrough the opinion poll ,however I do not agree to the time frame suggested byMr. Mufuruki


Zanzibar needs to be left alone to decide its own future withoutany outside influence whether being main land Tanzania or western super powers.

 

[simplemind]

https://www.jamiiforums.com/the-pal...ns-solve-their-own-problems.html#post14499177

 

[Luse msomba]

Talking of Tanzania to solve her own problem, it should be in a right and acceptable approach. what we are seeing now (Miss-use of force), is threatening peoples and is totally unacceptable.

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

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Sadly, the people of Zanzibar are left pinned between the rock and a hard place. Yet again, their just and democratic aspirations are being dismissed with extreme prejudice and at the level of political arrogance exercised by imperial CCM in Tanganyika in front of the international community. We need international intervention to restore democracy rather than being bombarded by negative narratives coming from people such as Mufuruki who are part of the problem for Zanzibaris and in many ways for themselves and their own future as well, even though they are incapable of perceiving this fact.

Firash Miharbi

is there a place called Tanganyika in the world today? Mr Firash Miharbi, has shown his true colours by calling Tanzania Mainland, Tanganyika. He should be ashamed of himself by being a separatist. If He is not happy to live in this Union, he can go and live in Oman.

 

[Mohamed Said]

is there a place called Tanganyika in the world today? Mr Firash Miharbi, has shown his true colours by calling Tanzania Mainland, Tanganyika. He should be ashamed of himself by being a separatist. If He is not happy to live in this Union, he can go and live in Oman.

This is exactly the kind of "utumbo" that we Zanzibaris detest. Zanzibar formed a union with which country may we ask? Did it form a union with Tanzania Mainland or with Tanganyika? If there is Zanzibar, there must be Tanganyika too otherwise you do not have a union. Are you ashamed of the name of your country? Or is this a ploy to tell the world that Zanzibar does not exist and your insistence on calling your country as Tanzania Mainland is one of your tricks to make people believe that Zanzibar is not a country and never was? Then why do we have a President and a Parliament? I know you are working hard to eliminate that too, wewe na wenzio kama wewe wenye fikra za kibeberu za kutaka kuimeza Zanzibar. Yaguju!
With your racist mentality you should go back and live in whichever forest your ancestors came from before you invaded the territory your tribe now claim to be your home. Union! What union can be formed by un-equals? One side detesting fifty years of colonialism as a result of the other side practicing ukandamizaji wa kibeberu and pretending to be deaf dumb and blind to Zanzibaris' suffering. I am sure these colonialists are sadists who enjoy inflicting pain to the colonized.
Leave us alone to rule ourselves in peace. Half a century of your hegemony is enough!

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

This is exactly the kind of ?utumbo? that we Zanzibaris detest. Zanzibar formed a union with which country may we ask? Did it form a union with Tanzania Mainland or with Tanganyika? If there is Zanzibar, there must be Tanganyika too otherwise you do not have a union.

name calling only says more about yourself, you need to grow up. We know separitist will always go back and try to remind us where we can from. There was no need for Mr. Firash to address TZ mainland the way he did. If he cant make his mind up, I will be happy to show him where to go.

Are you ashamed of the name of your country? Or is this a ploy to tell the world that Zanzibar does not exist and your insistence on calling your country as Tanzania Mainland is one of your tricks to make people believe that Zanzibar is not a country and never was?

for your information, Zanzibar is a territory and it maintains political union with Tanzania. does that help?

Then why do we have a President and a Parliament? I know you are working hard to eliminate that too, wewe na wenzio kama wewe wenye fikra za kibeberu za kutaka kuimeza Zanzibar. Yaguju!

like any territory in the world, Zanzibar has its own Parliament and President.

With your racist mentality you should go back and live in whichever forest your ancestors came from before you invaded the territory your tribe now claim to be your home.

I am not racist, i was brought up in Tanzania and Zanzibaris are my brothers and sisters.

Union! What union can be formed by un-equals? One side detesting fifty years of colonialism as a result of the other side practicing ukandamizaji wa kibeberu and pretending to be deaf dumb and blind to Zanzibaris? suffering. I am sure these colonialists are sadists who enjoy inflicting pain to the colonized.

Well, people from mainland are asking the same questions, why do you want equality and you physically dont look equal... these are kind of mentality I am standing against! we cant have zanzibaris calling mainland Tanganyika, and we cant have "Tanganyikans" belittling you!

The founding fathers of this nation have already rested, if we are not happy, we need to sit down as brothers and sisters and face our new challenges. Name calling and sitting side by side with so much suspicions about who is doing what to the other wont get us anywhere, every election year we turn into manic!

we had the same suspicions at last elections, thank goodness that was resolved, we went on with our business for five years peacefully, now we talk at each other like we were not working together 6 months ago.

Leave us alone to rule ourselves in peace. Half a century of your hegemony is enough!

Well, in democracy it is all about the numbers, If majority want to stay in Union, the minorities will have to live with it. You and Mr. Firash certainly are in the minority so I will encourage you to find alternatives.

 

[Mohamed Said]

iArmaniAdamson

Compared to the 50 million Tanganyikans, indeed we are a minority, but in Zanzibar, forget it. The overwhelming majority hate Tanganyikan hegemony and either you change your ways and treat us as equals, first by removing all the additional constitutional powers you took by cunning and tricks, and then re-negotiate the original eleven and also remove your vifaru and viboko and the thousands of military personnel that YOU Tanganyikans brought to our islands to occupy us imperialistic style and to intimidate us so as to make us feel threatened by your military power as did the imperialists before you, or change your evil ways; otherwise there is no brotherhood between us. You will not accept such imperialism to rule you, why should we? It makes no deference to the colonized whether the colonialists are white or black. Ask yourselves a simple question: Why do the majority of Tanganyikans insist on maintaining the union in its present imperialistic form and the overwhelming majority of Zanzibaris reject such hegemony? Anyone who cannot see the problem is part of the problem.

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

Compared to the 50 million Tanganyikans, indeed we are a minority, but in Zanzibar, forget it. The overwhelming majority hate Tanganyikan hegemony and

you will be very surprised when you find out how many people in Zanzibar actually hate "Tanganyikans".. just two of you, Mohamed Said and Firash Miharbi.

either you change your ways and treat us as equals, first by removing all the additional constitutional powers you took by cunning and tricks, and then re-negotiate the original eleven

well, it sounds like Mr. Firash doesnt want to negotiate, he wants out, if he wanted negotiations then there was no need to write up all those accusations while we are still in process of re negotiation.

and also remove your vifaru and viboko and the thousands of military personnel that YOU Tanganyikans brought to our islands to occupy us imperialistic style and to intimidate us so as to make us feel threatened by your military power as did the imperialists before you, or change your evil ways; otherwise there is no brotherhood between us.

well the police are there to keep peace, rest assured of that. if we were there to occupy i dont believe your puppet masters in Oman would have sat quitely and allow that to happen or at least not run to UN security council and report, but since that is not the case, everyone is at home quitely and carry on with their daily business.

You will not accept such imperialism to rule you, why should we? It makes no deference to the colonized whether the colonialists are white or black. Ask yourselves a simple question: Why do the majority of Tanganyikans insist on maintaining the union in its present imperialistic form and the overwhelming majority of Zanzibaris reject such hegemony? Anyone who cannot see the problem is part of the problem.

if you were born after 1964, you wont understand why the union was formed. Just to let you know, Africans (black Zanzibaris) were enslaved in their own land, by Arab masters. The revolution was necessary for these black Africans to live freely in their own land. When Nyerere and Karume sat down and drew the current treaty it was for the best INTEREST of "majority" of Tanzanians living in unguja and pemba islands. Since majority of these people still favours those treaties and they thing they are better off under "Tanganyika" than old Oman Sultanate, hence this union is still intact. does that explanation help you with a bit of hindsight, history and the reasoning why state of union is strong and will continue to be STRONGER!?

 

[Mohamed Said]

ArmaniAdamson

iArmaniAdamson,
You have mentioned me.

I would have responded but etiquettes do not allow me to do so.
I am a mere humble messenger.

Firash will respond if he feels there is a need to do so.

 

[Mohamed Said]

iArmaniAdamson

The state of the union is weak, only you and those like you cannot see this. Endeleeni kujifurahisha kwa kututisha na historia za kipaukwa pakawa na kuwasemea Wazanzibari. Amini usiamini, siku moja, wala siku hiyo haiko mbali, tutauondosha ukoloni/ubeberu wa hao mabeberu kutoka bara na kuurejesha udugu wa kweli baina ya wale wanaotaka udugu wa kweli. Kwa heri.

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

iArmaniAdamson,
You have mentioned me.

I would have responded but etiquettes do not allow me to do so.
I am a mere humble messenger.

Firash will respond if he feels there is a need to do so.

I mentioned your name because I wanted you to respond to your words, if you are a messenger you need to ask Mr. Firash to join JamiiForums and defend his article, I bet you forgot about that when you copied his message of hate towards "Tanganyika"

So, get Mr. Firash so that we can have thorough discussion about this matter.

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

The state of the union is weak, only you and those like you cannot see this. Endeleeni kujifurahisha kwa kututisha na historia za kipaukwa pakawa na kuwasemea Wazanzibari. Amini usiamini, siku moja, wala siku hiyo haiko mbali, tutauondosha ukoloni/ubeberu wa hao mabeberu kutoka bara na kuurejesha udugu wa kweli baina ya wale wanaotaka udugu wa kweli. Kwa heri.

if majority says NO to union thats fine, but it will ONLY be through democracy, so get your campaigns running. but I tell you as long as black Africans in Zanzibar live in those Islands, they will never go back to in enslavement by Oman Sultans!!!

 

[Milindi]

Sio mzuri sana kwa kizungu ila kusoma na kuelewa naweza!! Nimejikuta nasoma post zote.In real situation there is no union at all.

How can be the union of two state and became two state? .It could be a better thing if Zanzibar can be allowed to vote whether to to continue with the union or to quit the union!.

Kwanini tuendelee na Muungano ambao upande mmoja hautaki Kwanini tuendelee kuwalazimisha Wazanzibar.

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

duplicate post;

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

teh teh unaanzisha mada, alafu unakula kona mwenyewe. I thought you have something on your head, but nothing else. Nobody is trying to hide what the mainlanders did in Zanzibar, If you want to find that go to Oman. What I saw is the behaviour of yourself but I ignored the artificial historical background of yours. You are the same guy with the radical. I sware you as ignorant, uncivilised and irrespectable. Really sorry about that.

i hope he went to fetch Mr. Firash, he will probably be able to face the music and defend his article.

Sio mzuri sana kwa kizungu ila kusoma na kuelewa naweza!! Nimejikuta nasoma post zote.In real situation there is no union at all!!.How can be the union of two state and became two state!!!???.It could be a better thing if Zanzibar can be allowed to vote whether to to continue with the union or to quit the union!!!.Kwanini tuendelee na Muungano ambao upande mmoja hautaki!!?? Kwanini tuendelee kuwalazimisha Wazanzibar!!!!!?????.

the article was written in English and i find easier to argue in original language but will try some Sawahel.

ni Hivi, waoupinga Muungano ni wachache saaana, ila kama UKAWA upande wa bara, watu hawa wanadhani kila mtu anawaunga mkono, na ndio wanaopiga makelele mengi, hata huko mitaani Zanzibar huwa wanawaitikia tu, ikifika wakati wa kupiga kura, wengi wanapigia Muungano.

Sio kwamba wazanzibari wanachukia Muungano, hapo Dar na Kariakoo wapemba si ndio wenye maduka, wataupingaje Muungano? wakale wapi ???

 

[simplemind]

iArmaniAdamson
What do you mean wakale wapi? Kabla muungano walikula wapi? Acha upuuzi wako huo. Huu ni muungano wa equals tatizo Tanganyika ime relegate Zanzibar to a junior partner na hili ndio chanzo cha Kero za muungano zisiyokuwa na kikomo.

 

[Milindi]

iArmaniAdamson

Kiongozi ikiwezekana washauri wafanye kama scotland ili tujue kweli wazanzibar wanautaka muungano au hawautaki.

 

[simplemind]

Milindi

Resounding victory ya Maalim Seif not once ,not twice ,not thrice ,not four times but five times is in itself a referendum on the union.

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

Kiongozi ikiwezekana washauri wafanye kama scotland ili tujue kweli wazanzibar wanautaka muungano au hawautaki!!!

kabisa, ila jinsi hali ilivyo inabidi kuwalinda wanyonge, WATU WENGI hawajui Sultana wa Omani aliyekimbizwa baada ya Mapinduzi yuko mzima exile London na anataka kurudi na amesema bado yeye anajitambua kama Sultana wa Zanzibar.

tusipowalinda wanyonge, waafrika weusi, basi hawa jamaa watarudi wawafanye watumwa tena, kuwapikia na kuwafulia mpaka nguo za siri.

Resounding victory ya Maalim Seif not once ,not twice ,not thrice ,not four times but five times is in itself a referendum on the union.

in fair election where every person in Zanzibar votes without intimidation, or CUF or Oman Sultanate interference Black Africans will win hands down.