Regarding my request for information on WHERE RHINO HORNS AND ELEPHANT TUSKS ..Since Dar es Salaam has been visited inspected and hopefully controlled . I have to thank you all been able to locate the smuggling area..point. I now call on CITES and Tanzanian Government to act and raid this area and close down this smuggling point place. IT IS CITES DUTY TO ENSURE THIS.. but we know they are toothless so the only way we can react is by sharing this posting throughout Facebook.. I believe in the power of protest by people. THE SMUGGLING IS FROM KILWA KISIWANI on the Tanzanian Coast Line.. This town must become known to all A summary of information that I have received from various sources is :- They hide the ivory and other body parts (and heaps of pangolin scales) in the old ruins. There are caves around the area as well. Smaller boats take the tusks, horns etc away to large boats that are lying off shore, as they do not come into the area , bit like pirates in Somalia . This has apparently been reported to various authorities, who apparently say they could do nothing if it was not on land, but they apparently have intercepted one of the large boats en route to the east and found horns, tusks etc . But apparently nobody cares that these horns, tusks etc is being accumulated and taken to KILWA KISIWANI ..(Kilwa Kisiwani is a community on an island off the coast of East Africa in present-day Tanzania. Historically, it was the center of the Kilwa Sultanate, a Medieval sultanate, whose authority, at its height, stretched over the entire length of the Swahili Coast.) We must make this area known to all and it must be attacked..inspected whatever ..but cannot continue to smuggle .. Kilwa Kisiwani is a popular tourist area ti visit and I request tourists not to support this area or tourism ... The town of Kilwa as such is divided into three different towns. Kilwa Kivinje, Kilwa Masoko and Kilwa Kisiwani with Songo Mnara and Sanje Ya Kiti. Kilwa Masoko is however the least interesting history wise, but the modern town right now and centre of operations as well as location of all modern day facilities. The others are the places to go for historical reasons. Kilwa Kivinje, was in the 19th Century an Arabian slave and ivory trading town where caravans started off into the interior. With the end of the Arab time at the end of the 19th century, the German colonial government built a fort and extended the town. From German times one can still find a Market Hall, the big Fort with a canon from the 1st World war, and two pillars one for the tribal dead of the Maji Maji War fought between the local tribes of Southern Tanzania and the German Colonial government and the other for two German traders also killed during the same Maji Maji War. Kilwa Kisiwani is where one will find the greatest collection of ruins. Directly on the Northern shore, one will find the old Omani Fort which is built on the foundations of the old Portuguese fort in the early 19th Century, and where still an old wooden door remains. One can also find a big Mosque built in the 12th Century and was further extended up to the 15th Century. It was said to be the largest mosque in East Africa. Directly south of the mosque is a great house was once a complex building which was most likely the Sultan´s palace. In it there are four graves, of which one is rumoured to be of a Sultan. The small mosque from the 15th Century is the best kept building on the island, and still in use today. The large complex of walls in the west of the island is called Makutani (in the great wall). In the middle is a palace from the 18th Century, south of it, another Sultanas palace, with a mosque from the 15th Century. All the way to the east of the island there are the ground walls of the Husuni Kubwa, once the largest building in tropical Africa. Songo Mnara is another island with houses and mosques from 14th to 15th century. Some of which still show high walls and even parts of their roofs PLEASE SHARE THIS AND BECOME AN ACTIVIST TO CLOSE THIS AREA DOWN..
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:11:24 +0000
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