Meet Africa’s female tyrant ‘Butcher of Tanzania’ who ‘murdered 10,000 of her own people & dumped bodies in mass graves’

TANZANIA breathed a sigh of relief when President Samia Suluhu Hassan took power.

After her authoritarian predecessor President John Magufuli died in 2021, the softly-spoken Hassan was widely expected to be a less tyrannical replacement.

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Hassan, Tanzania’s first female president, was re-elected in October

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Protests erupted across Tanzania in the days following a rigged election

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Hundreds were killed as unrest spread across the country, starting in Dar es Salaam

Instead, the so-called “Butcher of Tanzania” has plunged the country into chaos.

Brutal killings marked Hassan’s re-election last month – with up to 10,000 civilians thought to have been killed by law enforcement.

And there is evidence that the brutal violence was pre-planned by the Tanzanian government, Intelwatch director Dr Paula Cristina Roque told The Sun.

Roque said: “We’re still trying to get the exact number, but it could be as many as between five and 10,000 civilians killed.

“This shows a level of planning that was systematic.

“It wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment reaction to a group of youths and Gen-Z that decided to boycott the elections and protest, this was a much deeper and pre-planned operation.

“We’re getting evidence of that on many fronts that can tie this directly to orders given months before, of what to do in the case of unrest.”

Intelwatch has an “overwhelming amount” of evidence of human rights violations by The Butcher, Roque said.

And the organisation is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Hassan and her government for crimes against humanity.

The president and her government are accused of murder, rape, torture and kidnapping going back to 2022 in a damning 85-page dossier presented by activists and lawyers to the ICC.