Police use teargas at Masai rally

[kskiska]

Reuters in Nairobi

Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse about 100 Masai tribesmen marching to the British high commission to demand the return of land they say is due to them after a colonial-era treaty expired this month.

The Kenyan lands minister said a 1904 treaty giving ancestral Masai land to British settlers had yet to expire. The treaty says it "shall be enduring as long as the Masai as a race shall exist", Amos Kimunya told reporters. "They're just misguided," he said.

Police intercepted about 100 Masai, wearing traditional bright red robes, as they tried to deliver a petition to the British high commissioner, Edward Clay. An earlier attempt to reach the building was rebuffed on August 13.

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[Nambe]

1. The Masai are defined by the English as being risistant to change.

How long has it been since the fu*king English have made a change. Nomadic culture is foreign to the English. How can a gentleman buy and sell somebody elses territory if they follow the food and maintain the balance of nature by doing what nature taught them to do over many centuries. In a just world, the Masai would be 'gassing' the English. They can go back to trading opium for tea and stay the f*ck on their own little island.