Et tu, Samia? Tanzania’s autocratic state and the denial of a massacre
Daily Maverick | 14.07.2026 04:37
The autocratic state that now reigns over Tanzania is actively constructing alternative narratives over last year’s post-election massacre. The government of Samia Suluhu Hassan is implementing a far-reaching strategy of state denial, hoping to evade international justice and diplomatic isolation. Twice we are witnessing not only the banality of evil, as referenced by Hannah Arendt, but the betrayal of the pain of survivors, of victims’ families, of the disappeared, the jailed and the tortured.
